title: Building Foundations for Natural Language Processing of Historical
    Turkish: Resources and Models
summary: This paper introduces foundational resources and models for natural language
  processing (NLP) of historical Turkish, a domain that has remained
  underexplored in computational linguistics. We present the first named entity
  recognition (NER) dataset, HisTR and the first Universal Dependencies treebank,
  OTA-BOUN for a historical form of the Turkish language along with
  transformer-based models trained using these datasets for named entity
  recognition, dependency parsing, and part-of-speech tagging tasks.
  Additionally, we introduce Ottoman Text Corpus (OTC), a clean corpus of
  transliterated historical Turkish texts that spans a wide range of historical
  periods. Our experimental results show significant improvements in the
  computational analysis of historical Turkish, achieving promising results in
  tasks that require understanding of historical linguistic structures. They also
  highlight existing challenges, such as domain adaptation and language
  variations across time periods. All of the presented resources and models are
  made available at https://huggingface.co/bucolin to serve as a benchmark for
  future progress in historical Turkish NLP.
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paper_title: Building Foundations for Natural Language Processing of Historical
    Turkish: Resources and Models
paper_summary: This paper introduces foundational resources and models for natural language
  processing (NLP) of historical Turkish, a domain that has remained
  underexplored in computational linguistics. We present the first named entity
  recognition (NER) dataset, HisTR and the first Universal Dependencies treebank,
  OTA-BOUN for a historical form of the Turkish language along with
  transformer-based models trained using these datasets for named entity
  recognition, dependency parsing, and part-of-speech tagging tasks.
  Additionally, we introduce Ottoman Text Corpus (OTC), a clean corpus of
  transliterated historical Turkish texts that spans a wide range of historical
  periods. Our experimental results show significant improvements in the
  computational analysis of historical Turkish, achieving promising results in
  tasks that require understanding of historical linguistic structures. They also
  highlight existing challenges, such as domain adaptation and language
  variations across time periods. All of the presented resources and models are
  made available at https://huggingface.co/bucolin to serve as a benchmark for
  future progress in historical Turkish NLP.
paper_ai_keywords: named entity recognition (NER) Universal Dependencies treebank transformer-based models dependency parsing part-of-speech tagging Ottoman Text Corpus (OTC) transliterated historical Turkish texts domain adaptation language variations historical linguistic structures