Dependency Annotation of Ottoman Turkish with Multilingual BERT

Şaziye Özateş, Tarık Tıraş, Efe Genç, Esma Bilgin Tasdemir


Abstract
This study introduces a pretrained large language model-based annotation methodology of the first dependency treebank in Ottoman Turkish. Our experimental results show that, through iteratively i) pseudo-annotating data using a multilingual BERT-based parsing model, ii) manually correcting the pseudo-annotations, and iii) fine-tuning the parsing model with the corrected annotations, we speed up and simplify the challenging dependency annotation process. The resulting treebank, that will be a part of the Universal Dependencies (UD) project, will facilitate automated analysis of Ottoman Turkish documents, unlocking the linguistic richness embedded in this historical heritage.
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2024.law-1.18
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Proceedings of The 18th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XVIII)
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March
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2024
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St. Julians, Malta
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Sophie Henning, Manfred Stede
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LAW | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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188–196
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Şaziye Özateş, Tarık Tıraş, Efe Genç, and Esma Bilgin Tasdemir. 2024. Dependency Annotation of Ottoman Turkish with Multilingual BERT. In Proceedings of The 18th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XVIII), pages 188–196, St. Julians, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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