This book brings together work on Turkish natural language and speech processing over the last
25 years covering numerous fundamental tasks ranging from morphological processing and
language modeling to full-fledged deep parsing and machine translation as well as
computational resources developed along the way to enable most of this work. Owing to its
complex morphology and free constituent order Turkish has proved to be a fascinating language
for natural language and speech processing research and applications.After an overview of the
aspects of Turkish that make it challenging for natural language and speech processing tasks
this book discusses in detail the main tasks and applications of Turkish natural language and
speech processing. A compendium of the work on Turkish natural language and speech processing
it is a valuable reference for new researchers considering computational work on Turkish as
well as a one-stop resource for commercial and research institutions planning to develop
applications for Turkish. It also serves as a blueprint for similar work on other Turkic
languages such as Azeri Turkmen and Uzbek.
