Two-level Description of Turkish Morphology

This paper describes a full two level morphological description of Turkish word structures The description has been implemented using the PC KIMMO environment and is based on a root word lexicon of about roots words The phonetic rules of contemporary Turkish spoken in Turkey have been encoded using two level rules while the morphotactics of the agglutinative word structures have been encoded as nite state machines for verbal nominal paradigms and other categories Almost all the special cases of and exceptions to phonological and morphological rules have been taken into account In this paper we describe the rules and the nite state machines along with examples and a discussion of how various special cases were handled We also describe some known limitations and problems with this description We then brie y describe various natural language processing applications that use this description as the morphological analysis component