Uluslararası Uygur Araştırmaları Dergisi (Oct 2017)

Computational Linguistics and Adaptation of Turkic Languages to Computer

  • Murat Orhun

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10
pp. 67 – 74

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This article describes computational linguistics briefly, and explains Turkic language studies in this field using Uyghur language as an example. With developing computer technologies, many software has been implemented in order to complete some tasks in place of human. For example, translate from one language to another, or translate from one language to more than one languages at the same time, correcting or editing texts, analyzing documents, converting speeches into texts or converting texts into speeches etc. Until now, there are many successful researches have been done on different languages such as English, Japanese, Arabic, Turkish, Chinese, French and Russian etc. In Turkic languages, especially in Turkey Turkish, though there are some important researches have been done, other Turkic languages still at a beginning stage. Though, Uyghur language belongs to Turkic language family and it has common properties with other languages, however research results about other Turkic languages cannot be applied to Uyghur language directly. As a natural language, Uyghur language has many special properties those (are) different from other Turkic languages. This paper summarizes some computer based researches about Uyghur language and use them as a part of general machine translation system of the Turkic world.

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