This book brings together work on Turkish natural language and speech
processing over the last 25 years, covering numerous fundamental tasks
ranging from morphological processing and language modeling, to
full-fledged deep parsing and machine translation, as well as
computational resources developed along the way to enable most of this
work. Owing to its complex morphology and free constituent order,
Turkish has proved to be a fascinating language for natural language and
speech processing research and applications.
After an overview of the aspects of Turkish that make it challenging for
natural language and speech processing tasks, this book discusses in
detail the main tasks and applications of Turkish natural language and
speech processing. A compendium of the work on Turkish natural language
and speech processing, it is a valuable reference for new researchers
considering computational work on Turkish, as well as a one-stop
resource for commercial and research institutions planning to develop
applications for Turkish. It also serves as a blueprint for similar work
on other Turkic languages such as Azeri, Turkmen and Uzbek.