Syntactic Transfer to Kyrgyz Using the Treebank Translation Method

TL;DR

This paper introduces a treebank translation method to transfer syntactic annotations from Turkish to Kyrgyz, improving annotation accuracy for Kyrgyz's low-resource syntactic corpus development.

Contribution

It presents a novel tool for syntactic transfer between languages and a method for evaluating annotation complexity, enhancing Kyrgyz syntactic corpus creation.

Findings

Higher syntactic annotation accuracy than monolingual models

Effective transfer of syntactic structures from Turkish to Kyrgyz

A new approach for assessing annotation complexity

Abstract

The Kyrgyz language, as a low-resource language, requires significant effort to create high-quality syntactic corpora. This study proposes an approach to simplify the development process of a syntactic corpus for Kyrgyz. We present a tool for transferring syntactic annotations from Turkish to Kyrgyz based on a treebank translation method. The effectiveness of the proposed tool was evaluated using the TueCL treebank. The results demonstrate that this approach achieves higher syntactic annotation accuracy compared to a monolingual model trained on the Kyrgyz KTMU treebank. Additionally, the study introduces a method for assessing the complexity of manual annotation for the resulting syntactic trees, contributing to further optimization of the annotation process.