Deep Parsing of Turkish with Lexical-Functional Grammar

In this chapter we present a large scale, deep grammar for Turkish based on the Lexical-Functional Grammar formalism. In dealing with the rich derivational morphology of Turkish, we follow an approach based on morphological units that are larger than a morpheme but smaller than a word, in encoding rules of the grammar in order to capture the linguistic phenomena in a more formal and accurate way. Our work covers phrases that are building blocks of a large scale grammar, and also focuses on linguistically—and implementation-wise—more interesting cases such as long distance dependencies and complex predicates.