UD_Turkish-TueCL

Treebank card from UD release 2.18: metadata and texts come from UD_Turkish-TueCL/README.md; size is counted by streaming the .conllu files and checked against the release stats.xml. Generated by tools/treebanks build; do not edit by hand. Papers: Papers: UD_Turkish-TueCL; seeds: seeds/; converter: convert.md.

Annotation layers

UD scale: manual native — annotated by hand directly in UD; converted from manual — converted from manual annotation in another scheme; converted with corrections — converted and partly corrected by hand; automatic with corrections — automatic, with partial manual corrections; automatic — automatic; not available — the layer is absent.

Size

Tokens are surface tokens (Spanish vámonos is one), words are syntactic words (vamos + nos); multiword tokens are those split into several words; empty nodes are the N.M nodes of the enhanced graph. Splits train, dev are absent from the release.

Summary

The Turkish-TueCL treebank is part of a parallel Universal Dependencies corpus containing 148 sentences across four Turkic languages (Turkish, Azerbaijani, Kyrgyz, and Uzbek), designed to facilitate cross-linguistic research on these related languages.

Introduction

The Turkish-TueCL treebank consists of 148 carefully selected sentences (904 tokens) compiled from multiple sources, including the Cairo corpus (20 sentences), the UDTW23 corpus (20 sentences), and 97 additional examples illustrating specific grammatical constructions of interest. It serves as the source treebank for a parallel corpus spanning four Turkic languages from distinct branches of the family: Turkish and Azerbaijani (Oghuz), Kyrgyz (Kipchak), and Uzbek (Karluk).

The treebank includes various syntactic phenomena relevant to Turkic languages, such as pro-drop constructions, auxiliary chains, postverbal structures, and non-canonical word orders. Each sentence has been manually annotated following UD guidelines, with particular attention to morphosyntactic features that highlight both shared typological characteristics and language-specific traits. English translations are provided as metadata to support comparative research.

This resource is significant as it represents the first fully aligned parallel UD treebanks for these Turkic languages, enabling systematic cross-linguistic comparisons previously hindered by the lack of parallel resources. The treebank supports research in comparative Turkic syntax, cross-lingual parsing, and language education.

References

Please, cite the following paper if you use Turkish-TueCL UD treebank:

<pre> @inproceedings{akhundjanova-etal-2025-parallel, title = "Parallel {U}niversal {D}ependencies Treebanks for {T}urkic Languages", author = "Akhundjanova, Arofat and Akkurt, Furkan and Chontaeva, Bermet and Eslami, Soudabeh and Coltekin, Cagri", editor = {Bouma, Gosse and {\c{C}}{\"o}ltekin, {\c{C}}a{\u{g}}r{\i}}, booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW, SyntaxFest 2025)", month = aug, year = "2025", address = "Ljubljana, Slovenia", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.udw-1.14/", pages = "129--136", ISBN = "979-8-89176-292-3", abstract = "We introduce the first fully aligned and manually annotated parallel Universal Dependencies (UD) treebanks for four Turkic languages: Azerbaijani, Kyrgyz, Turkish, and Uzbek. These resources currently consist of 148 strategically selected sentences that illustrate typologically significant morphosyntactic phenomena across these related yet distinct languages. These parallel treebanks enable systematic comparative studies of Turkic syntax and may be instrumental in cross-lingual NLP applications. All treebanks are available as part of UD v2.16." } </pre>

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