Resources for Turkish Natural Language Processing: A critical survey

TL;DR

This paper surveys publicly available Turkish linguistic resources, highlighting gaps and providing recommendations to support research and application development in Turkish NLP.

Contribution

It offers a comprehensive review of Turkish NLP resources, identifying gaps and proposing recommendations for future resource development.

Findings

Many resources are publicly available but unevenly distributed across linguistic types.

Significant gaps exist in annotated corpora and lexical databases for Turkish.

The survey provides strategic recommendations to enhance Turkish NLP research.

Abstract

This paper presents a comprehensive survey of corpora and lexical resources available for Turkish. We review a broad range of resources, focusing on the ones that are publicly available. In addition to providing information about the available linguistic resources, we present a set of recommendations, and identify gaps in the data available for conducting research and building applications in Turkish Linguistics and Natural Language Processing.