Turkish Discourse Bank: Porting a discourse annotation style to a morphologically rich language

2013-05-01
Zeyrek Bozşahin, Deniz
Sevdik Çallı, Ayışığı B.
Çakıcı, Ruket
This paper briefly describes the Turkish Discourse Bank, the first publicly available annotated discourse resource for Turkish. It focuses on the challenges posed by annotating Turkish, a free word order language with rich inflectional and derivational morphology. It shows the usefulness of the PDTB style annotation but points out the need to expand this annotation style with the needs of the target language.
Dialogue and Discourse

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Citation Formats
D. Zeyrek Bozşahin, A. B. Sevdik Çallı, and R. Çakıcı, “Turkish Discourse Bank: Porting a discourse annotation style to a morphologically rich language,” Dialogue and Discourse, pp. 174–184, 2013, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/32505.