Turkronicles: diachronic resources for the fast evolving Turkish language.
Over the past century, the Turkish language has undergone substantial changes, mainly driven by governmental interventions. The relatively rapid linguistic evolution of the Turkish language complicates the processing of historical Turkish documents. In this work, we introduce Turkronicles, which is...
| Publicado en: | Language Resources & Evaluation Vol. 59; no. 4; pp. 3765 - 3798 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=189912029&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 189912029 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 1574020X 179V jtl: Language Resources & Evaluation issn: 1574020X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Dec2025 vid: 59 iid: 4 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 189912029 10.1007/s10579-025-09857-w ppf: 3765 ppct: 33 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.9MB tig: atl: Turkronicles: diachronic resources for the fast evolving Turkish language. aug: au: Yazar, Togay Kutlu, Mucahid Bayırlı, İsa Kerem affil: https://ror.org/03ewx7v96 Department of Computer Engineering, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey https://ror.org/00yhnba62 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar https://ror.org/03ewx7v96 TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey su: Turkish language Historical linguistics Linguistics Variation in language Pattern perception Standard language Historical source material Türkiye sug: subj: Türkiye Turkish language Historical linguistics Linguistics Variation in language Pattern perception Standard language Historical source material keyword: Communication and Culture Linguistics Diachronic analysis Diachronic corpora Frequency analysis Language Turkish corpus ab: Over the past century, the Turkish language has undergone substantial changes, mainly driven by governmental interventions. The relatively rapid linguistic evolution of the Turkish language complicates the processing of historical Turkish documents. In this work, we introduce Turkronicles, which is a diachronic corpus for Turkish derived from the Official Gazette of Türkiye and the records of the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye, spanning the period from 1920 to 2024. Turkronicles contains 46,328 documents and 1.1B tokens, making it an important resource for analyzing the linguistic evolution of Turkish and developing models to process historical Turkish documents. In addition, we develop a library to conduct linguistic analysis on diachronic corpora easily. Furthermore, we train a model to fix OCR errors within the documents. Moreover, we explore how the Turkish vocabulary and the writing conventions have changed since 1920 using our corpus. Our analysis reveals that the vocabulary has changed significantly and multiple spellings exist for several words. Specifically, we show that vocabulary divergence increases over time, as expected. Due to such significant vocabulary change in Turkish over time, similarity between the periods 1920–1929 and 2010–2019 is 57%. Despite the substantial vocabulary changes, we demonstrate that it is possible to identify old Turkish words that have the same meanings with newly coined ones using word embeddings. Regarding writing conventions, we found a noticeable decrease in the use of circumflex. In addition, words ending with the letters '-b' and '-d' have been largely replaced by their counterparts ending with '-p' and '-t', respectively, although the former are still in use. Lastly, we observe an increase in the usage of words that comply with vowel harmony rules as a result of the "purification" process of Turkish Language Reform. Overall, our study quantitatively highlights the dramatic changes in Turkish from various linguistic aspects. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Language Resources & Evaluation is a copyright of Springer, 2025. All Rights Reserved. item: Language Resources & Evaluation holder: Springer Nature dt: @attributes: year: 2025 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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