@inproceedings{e15f3a4d5821474a823294683ab7ca44,
title = "A link grammar for an agglutinative language",
abstract = "This paper presents a syntactic grammar developed in the link grammar formalism for Turkish which is an agglutinative language. In the link grammar formalism, the words of a sentence are linked with each other depending on their syntactic roles. Turkish has complex derivational and inflectional morphology, and derivational and inflection morphemes play important syntactic roles in the sentences. In order to develop a link grammar for Turkish, the lexical parts in the morphological representations of Turkish words are removed, and the links are created depending on the part of speech tags and inflectional morphemes in words. Furthermore, a derived word is separated at the derivational boundaries in order to treat each derivation morpheme as a special distinct word, and allow it to be linked with the rest of the sentence. The derivational morphemes of a word are also linked with each other with special links to indicate that they are parts of the same word. The adapted unique link grammar formalism for Turkish provides flexibility for the linkage construction, and similar methods can be used for other languages with complex morphology.",
keywords = "Link grammar, Parsing",
author = "Ozlem Istek and Ilyas Cicekli",
year = "2007",
language = "English",
series = "International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)",
pages = "285--290",
editor = "Galia Angelova and Kalina Bontcheva and Ruslan Mitkov and Nicolas Nicolov and Nikolai Nikolov",
booktitle = "International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP 2007 - Proceedings",
address = "Australia",
note = "International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP 2007 ; Conference date: 27-09-2007 Through 29-09-2007",
}