Tokenisation of Turkic Copula Constructions in Universal Dependencies

Cagri Coltekin; Furkan Akkurt; Bermet Chontaeva; Soudabeh Eslami; Sardana Ivanova; Gulnura Dzhumalieva; Aida Kasieva; Nikolett Mus; Jonathan Washington

Tokenisation of Turkic Copula Constructions in Universal Dependencies

Cagri Coltekin, Furkan Akkurt, Bermet Chontaeva, Soudabeh Eslami, Sardana Ivanova, Gulnura Dzhumalieva, Aida Kasieva, Nikolett Mus, Jonathan Washington

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Identifying units, ’syntactic words’, for morphosyntactic analysis is important yet challenging for morphologically rich languages. In this paper we propose a set of guiding principles to determine units of morphosyntactic analysis, and apply them to the case of copular constructions in Turkic languages, in the context of Universal Dependencies (UD) framework. We also provide a survey of the practice in the Turkic UD treebanks published to date, and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the proposed tokenisation for a selection of Turkic languages.

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[Tokenisation of Turkic Copula Constructions in Universal Dependencies](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigturk-1.14/) (Coltekin et al., SIGTURK 2026)

Tokenisation of Turkic Copula Constructions in Universal Dependencies (Coltekin et al., SIGTURK 2026)

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Cagri Coltekin, Furkan Akkurt, Bermet Chontaeva, Soudabeh Eslami, Sardana Ivanova, Gulnura Dzhumalieva, Aida Kasieva, Nikolett Mus, and Jonathan Washington. 2026. Tokenisation of Turkic Copula Constructions in Universal Dependencies. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop Natural Language Processing for Turkic Languages (SIGTURK 2026), pages 172–178, Rabat, Morocco. Association for Computational Linguistics.