{ "paper_id": "C92-1010", "header": { "generated_with": "S2ORC 1.0.0", "date_generated": "2023-01-19T12:34:31.596027Z" }, "title": "", "authors": [], "year": "", "venue": null, "identifiers": {}, "abstract": "Most of tile research on parsing natnral [allguages has beetl concerned with I\",nglish, or wil, h other languages nlOrl)hologically similar Io English. Parsing agglntinat.ive word st, ructures ha.s altracted relatively little attcnl;ion most probal~ly becanse agghlfinatiw? lallgllages COlll~aill word s/ructtlres of considerable complexity, and parsing WOrdS ill Stlch languages I'(?(llliros morphok~gical analysis techniques. Ill this pal)er, we pi'eSell(r the design and implementation of a morphological root-driven parser tor Turkish word structures which has been mcorporatoed into a spelling checking kerllel for on-line Tiirkish texl, The agghltmative Ilatllre of the language and the resulting ('Olll[)l her of sites oa luternot. It is also I~ossible to obtain solnp statistical hiforniatiou 1) 3\" running the progranl willi -s option. Parsing agglutinative word structures necessitates rather nontrivial phonological and morphological analyses which present special difficulties in the development of parsers for such languages, not usually encountered in parsers for other languages. As a resub, the number of parsers developed for agghitinafive languages, and particularly for Turkish, is quite limit.ed, and they have certain shortcomings. We have solved most of the problelns encountered in the previous parsers by lnaking a detailed and careful research on Turkish word formation rules and their exceptions [20] . These results may hopefully be helpful for future researchers on Turkish linguistics. We should note t.hat ewm though it is claimed that word formarion rules in Turkish are well-defined and Turkish is a very regular language, as used today it shows many irregularities that cause the ln'oblem of parsing I.his language to become a very hard and interesting problem Many grammar books haw~ been referred to collect, Turkish word format.ion rules, hi those books, after each rule is defined, usually it is reminded that tliel'e lllay occur sonte exceptions to that, rule ill SOllle condit,ions, hut mostly those conditions can not be \"well\" defined, For example, in all Turkish grammar books, it is said that \"When a Turkish word ending wit.h one of the consonants P, ~', T, K receives a suffix beginning with a consonant, that final consonant is soft,cued, bul t, here are some such words whose final consonant does not change.\" ]lowever, none of the books says what the common propert.y of those words which do not obey t,o that rule is, because most probably it is not known yet. Ill order t,o inchlde that rule correctly in the parser, all words having the indicated prol)erty have been examined, the list of t,he irregular ones have been obtained, and speeial checks have hi!ell dolle t,o catch those irregularit.ies. Ill order t.o obtain reliabh? resuhs front the spelling checker, all of the known rifles and theh' except, ions have been inlplellll!tlt,Od", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 975, "end": 979, "text": "[20]", "ref_id": null } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Performance Results", "sec_num": "4." }, { "text": "The spelling checker ,'4OllletillleS i'e[)ol'LS correcI woFds aS illcorreet, ()lie reason ell, his is the absellce of SOllle words in ore' dictionary. Although the dict, ionary is reasonably complete, there still remains many technl cal terms and proper names which are not included. Adding more and nlore words will obviously increase tile flmelional performance of the checker. Another reason is that, most of the derivational sultixes are not mchtded rote'die rules. If( stem that is derived by such a suffix is not present ill the dictionary, it is reported as misspelh~d. Additionally. for th( deriw~lionel sullixes that. are included in our rules, the lis~ of the roots that they can be a[lixed to may no( he full~ determined. This problem can also be solved by examining the dictionary As far as execution pertbrmance goes. our iml)hmtentation is very S;atisfa\u00a2lory giving an ahnost. 1000 words/second word analysis throughput [19] .", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 934, "end": 938, "text": "[19]", "ref_id": "BIBREF18" } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Performance Results", "sec_num": "4." }, { "text": "AcrEs DE COLING-92, NAh'TES, 23-28 AOOT 1992", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "PRec. Of COLING-92, NANTES, AUG. 23-28, 1992", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "PRec. OF COLING-92, NM, rrES, Auo. 23-28, 1992", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "PRec. OF COLING-92, NAI~rrES, AUG. 23-28, 1992", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "Ac31~s DECOLING-92, NANTES, 23-28 Aour 1992", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "Plot. 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In this case. [Y] indiss COliSOliaFlls arc (', F, T. 1t, $. K. 1 >, ~. 'fh<' reluainmg ronsolianls are voiced lnterosied readers call find tile complete lisi of con-SOllant harlnony lqlh's in l.;oksal [12], and Solak [20J To give ~ll/ examl)h', one of thr rules says that if a sulIix begins with ore, of t.h( consonants I). (:, (;. Ibis COllSOllalll changes iillo T, ('. I{ l'eSlWCl [rely, if\" a %oiceless COllSOllalll is iH'(,~('nt as the final I)h(HieillO o[' the pr(wious illl)rpllonl0, e.g.. ~l'()I,])a (Ol/ l'o~id), bill I:(]AK'IA (ou plalw), ~oiii(' lilOrl)henles are allixcd wiill ihc insertion ot either N. ,q, ~. \"l\" when Iwo vowels llal)pcn Io follmv each otll0r (e.g. ilAIIt:ES;i (his/l~er garden), II,tll(.:l::Yi (aecusali;e of garden), il.:i,5_l,;l/ (two each)j, or when there is anoLher nloi'phenie following (e.g. BAII(!IC,q_'iNDI'; (in his/iwr ga,'d,~.), or in Colltexl of sonic lirOllOtlllS (c.g,, BUNA (to tiffs), Id. ][owovel-, tllerc ~tl'P SOlllO ('il'4or, whrr\u00a2 f4Ollll' i~honenws ~ll'(' ch,qllgod by aSSilnilalion or variolls olher (icforlllaliOl/S [12] An ex(:eptioilal cas,' related io ih,' tlexion of IOOIs iS observed ill ])l,lSOlla] i)rOllOllllS BI\",N (1) alid ql;N (you)]laving ,lalivo~ lIANA (to ine)and SAN:\\ (Io yell t rcspeciivc[~. 'l'hrsr ar(\" individual cases and Clill hi, Ircated as excc[lli(lllS. ,% lil,)ll syslelnatic ,qlipsis OrClii's when il. su[[ix {1} k(.)ll ('Olll(?S all,el i it(' ~elbal reels alld SlOlllS ('li(I.iiig wil[i I,ho llholieillc {A} In SilC[i cases, ttlc wid,, \\()1\\('1 ;ii Ih,' end of lhe sielil is i/arrow~,d, c,g, YAP -','AI>IYOlt (s/h,'/ii is doin-; [ii]). but Alia \u2022 AI'IIYOII (s/ho/it is ,.earchmg). AIIOl[lcq' rool deforlualion o(('tlrs ;is (i vowel ellipsis. ~,Vlien a sut[ix brginnin wilh a vowel COllies afler SCllllt, ilOtlllS, gener;i]l) dcsigiiating paris of thr hu ma. body. wim'h has . vowd {i} i. ils lasl syllabi,', Ihis vm~el drops, e.-. IIl'ltl:X (lieS,,) -BVIINUM (mS nose). '-;imilarty. who. lh(\" passiw.uess suffix {I}L is affixed to some ;crl~s. whose lasl vowel is {I}, tNi <, vowel also drops. ~,.~. ('AC, II/MAb; (io call) --('A(;ItlI,MAK (io Iw calh,d). Other root delk)rl.a ('l{,,f+q 5olak [20] fra delailed ilffOil,,aiion oil ,'at, h of th,' ~ullixes tions and their exceptions call be found ill Solak [20].2.2. Turkish morphologyTurkish roots can be classified into two main classes: ,ominal and verbal. The verbal class comprises the verbs, while l/Olllillal chess COlllprises llOIlllS, |)rOllOilllS and adjecl.iw's, etc. Tile sulfixes that can be receiw~d by either of these groups are different, i.e., a suffix which C~lll bt, a|Iix(!d to ~1 llOlllillRl l'oot ci%11 llot b(! affixed to a w.'rbal root wil, h tile same semantic function. Turkish suffixes can bc classified as derivalio~lal and co~ljuyallonaL l)eriwttional sutfixes change thr meaning and sometinies lhe class of tim stenls they are affixed, while a conjtlgated verb or noun renmins x'~ such after the atlixation. Conjugational suffixes call b. affixed to all of the roots in |,he class thai [,hry belong. On t, hc el, her hand, 1hr nuniber of roots that ,,ach derivational suffix can }>e affixed changes. The nominal model 'lhr shnplili,~d models for nominal and verbal grainlllgll'S rail be giVI211 ~lS tollows: 6 The nomimd niodel: nommal root + phu'al suffix + possessive sutflx + case suffix -I relalive suffix Tim wwlml model: verbal root -[ voic(\" sultixes + negation sulfix + corn pound verb suffix t-Illaili It'llse suttix -i-qllestioll suffix + secoitd I.l!llsl? suffix + Iwrsoll sutllx 3. Implementation \\\\',' have ilnph,lnrnted n rool-driwul lnorphological analyzer lbr '['urkish ;tlld llSe,,I il as a spelltn 9 chcckl*ui ,4' e 7~t;I that can be integrated t.o elh'd Each word is allalyzcd individually wil, h 11o at, telllion to the Selllalltics or |,o the coillcxl. If a r, ord is spellrd corrrcll3 Inil is l,h~, wrOllgj ':.oi'd ill lhe \u00a2Ollll'Xl. w(> liave 11o inl,elll,ion for, and way of tlagging it. ;is ci'rOllOOllb, '['hils, as in all oliwr Sl)elling prog~i'alllS, th(> lexl is CXalnilied wilh leSliecl Lo words, liol willi rcspccl Io SClilC-iices. hi addition, w~, (1o 1101 )'{'t give ally stiggr'stion aboul the iliOSl likely correci words afler doleFor examph ~, tile word BUII.UN (nose)have to be niarked as being a nolllilla[ root, and de-forming by vowel ellipsis. For this reason, for eachword in Ihe dictiouary a series of flags represeutingcertain properties of that word are heht. Tllus. eachelitry of tim dictionary Colltains a word in Turkishand a series of flags showing certain properties of thatwor( [.Nearly 2:1,500 words..'ach having 7 h, lters on theaveragiN are listed ill otir Ctil'roilt diclionary, 41 flagsper e.'ord 7 have been lised so far, bill later it iliayh\u00a2\" liecessary to iise illore, [leCallSO of this, two longinl.egers (whose bits rel/reselll flags. 17)r a toial of 64flags) arv assigned for every word.", "html": null }, "TABREF2": { "text": "Afier tile root of the word is found, tile rest of tile word is considered as its suli]xes. The first, vowel in the sutfixes part must be in harmony with tile last vowel of the root, while tile succeediug vowels must be in harnmny with the vowel preceding them.", "num": null, "type_str": "table", "content": "
For example, both METN[ (accusative of text) and
METiN][ (accusative of strong) are correct although
the root of both words is MET[N (text, strong) be-
catlse this word call be used in twodifferent meanings.
3.4. MorphophonemicCheck
Turkish words obey vowel and COllSOll~lllt harmouy
rules during agglutination (see sections :3.2.1 and
3.2.2). The vowel harmony check may be done jnst
after tile root determination, but other morphophone-
mic checks should be done during morphological anal-
3sis,
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there, or ~tgain pass hltck to the previous ()lie, since
the da.ss of a stem can change when it, receives certain
suffixes. \"['lie switches between parsers C~l] SOllletinles
he very complicated. Some suffixes can have two dif-
ferent usages. In such eases both possibihties haw~ to
he considered.
is used
Io separate tile suffixes of a word from left to right,
;111(I I/ace is tlsed to p;q'se tilose su{[ixes tlsil]g Illorpilo-
logical rules of Turkish granllrlar.
The models given in various books on Turkish gram
mar [I. 2, 1. 5. 14} and previous research on Turkish
COml)utational linguistics [12. 16] have been ul,ilized
in for generating the rufi's used in the parsers. Addi-
tionally, all of tim known exceplioua] cases ]lave also
been considered (see [20]). Although all the eonju-
gational suffixes flaw? been included into the rules,
only a mlallsubset of the derivalional suttixes have
heen ha]idled, The reasons lot Ihis sre dial majorily
of Ihe derivatioual sullixes may he receiw~d by only a
small group of roots, and deternfining such groups is ;i
rat her dilficult an(I time-consuming job, and depends
on wmous sen(antic criteria. The derivational sutfixos
that may I)c. alfixed to all of Ill,? roots ill a {'lawn and
those which can he affixed to large I]{rcentage, Illll
UOi all, of the roots in their clas~ are inclu{led in lhe
rules. That makes it i)ossible to , limioate a number
of words from the dictionary.
'l~ho two p~ll'Sers ~11'(, allerllalively llscd. First parser
Io I}e limed is deternlined accordilig to Ill,. class of/It{'
root, hilt its the parsfilg COll]illlWs it IlHty be IleC(?S:-;&try
1(} s\\\\ilt.h frolll o11{, plll'S(?r I(} ill]other ~llld eOl/til]ll{'
8 i'IIC WOlf[ ~(}l, iN l)l'OtlOlllll?Cd slighl b' dilfel'elll ill Ihc I;~tlCl',
", "html": null }, "TABREF4": { "text": ")epending on the sulfixes, switches between the parsers are possihle. When the cud of the word is reached, if no errors ('all he tfUllld then the spelfillg of the word is correct. If any error is found in itny of the parsers or during ulorphophonenlic checks, a new root is searched. If another reel is found same operations are doile. If no suceessfld parsing can b,> done although lilt! Iirst. letter of the word is reached, the word is added into the OUtl)ut hist.", "num": null, "type_str": "table", "content": "
Parsillg
contimles there until I.he suffix M{A} is nlatched.
This sulfix can either make a w~rh a noun or negate
it First cousideriug the possibility that it is used
as a derivationM suffix, tile noun parser is invoked.
'file rmnaiuing part of the word can not be parsed
by 1his parser. So accepthlg M{A} as the negation
suffix, tile verb parser is returned to ;hid parsing con-
tinues there. Later comes the sullix [Y]{A}N, which
is a sulfix i.fiat illakes ;t lIOill] fronl a verb, so ~lgS.ill
a switch to the noun parser is made. Continuing in
this p~trser, the word is parsed correctly.
Some Turkish roots call take the sullixes helonging
to both nominal or verhal chLsses. [:or such roots if
parsing is unsuccessfld in the first parser chosen, the
other olle UlnSt alsG be tried. For exalnphL (fie root of
the word A(]LAR (hungry I)eOl)fi~) is At7. 'Ellis root
may either he used as a verb (open) or as a uoun
(hungry). If parsing is first attempted with tile ver-
bal parser it will he unsuccessful. So we backtrack
aud use the nominal parser. With the nominal parser
the word can be parsed successfully.
Figure 1 shows the block diagram of the word anM-
ysis. Smumurizhlg, first, the syllable structure of the
word is checked. If it is wrong the word is added
into the output list of misspelled words, otherwise
the root is detemfined. If no root can be found the
word is reported as misspelled. If a root is tbund,
lirst Ihe vowel Ilarmony check is done. Then, ac-
cording to lhe ('lass of the root, ol]e of the parsers is
actiwlted Ill Ihe parsers, an the sutIixes ;(re isolated
OI/C Ily oue, ilecessary luorphophollenlic cfieeks a, re
done. l
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