Özlem from Samsun, Turkey, is not only a native speaker of Turkish, but also deals with Turkish in her work as a researcher in the field of natural language processing. We talk about Istanbul, Turkish–German code-switching, agglutination, gatherings of ü and other vowels, non-existing houses, and the challenges of processing Turkish and other languages with computers.
Sorry for the slightly shaky audio quality and background noises.
Music: Can Kazaz – Hayat Böyle Demek ki (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Sorry for the slightly shaky audio quality and background noises.
Music: Can Kazaz – Hayat Böyle Demek ki (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Show notes
Introduction
- Turkic languages
- Samsun
- Istanbul
- Turkey
- Ottoman Empire
- Turkish War of Independence
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- Atatürk's Reforms
Turkish in Germany
Sounds and signs
- Ottoman Turkish alphabet
- Turkish alphabet
- ğ (“soft g”)
Language reform
Agglutination
- Agglutinative language
- Agglutination
- Longest word in Turkish
- Famous example: Çekoslovakyalılaştıramadıklarımızdan mısınız (Are you one of those people whom we could not make to be Czechoslovakian?)
Vowel harmony
Natural language processing of Turkish
- Özlem's website at the Institute for Natural Language Processing at the University of Stuttgart
- Natural language processing
- Parsing
- Machine learning
- Machine translation