Apertium Turkic

The Apertium Turkic working group includes everyone who works on Turkic-language resources as part of the Apertium project. Resources we develop include not just Machine Translation systems, but their underlying components which can be repurposed, including morphological transducers, disambiguators, and dictionaries.

Translation pairs

We have done quite a bit of work on Machine Translation systems involving Turkic languages. This section provides a short overview of some of them, roughly in order of how well they work.

Released

• Our Kazakh-Tatar system was developed largely by Ilnar, who did the majority of work on it as his GSoC 2012 project. The project was overseen by Jonathan, who did a lot of work on the transducers (especially Kazakh), and Fran. The system was deemed production-ready and released during summer of 2013, and work is ongoing to increase its accuracy.

Under development

• Turkish-Kyrgyz
• English-Kazakh
• Kazakh-Kyrgyz
• Uzbek-Turkish

Prototypes

• Tatar-Bashqort
• Chuvash-Turkish
• Khalkha-Kazakh
• Azeri-Turkish
• Turkmen-Turkish
• Chuvash-Tatar
• Tatar-Turkish

Planned for the future

• Uzbek-Kyrgyz
• Qaraqalpaq-Uzbek

People

Active contributors

Photo	Name	IRC nick	Turkic projects involved in (role)	Other Turkic projects interested in
	Francis Morton Tyers (wiki · email)	spectie, spectei, spectre
	Jonathan North Washington (wiki · email)	firespeaker, jonorthwash, kd5cfx	Pairs: Kazakh-Tatar (oversaw development) Turkish-Kyrgyz (oversaw development) Kazakh-Kyrgyz Khalkha-Kazakh (personal project) English-Kazakh (occasional consultation) Transducers: Kazakh (developed much of morphotactics and morphophonology) Kyrgyz (developed almost entirety of morphotactics and morphophonology) Tatar (helped develop morphotactics and morphophonology) Bashqort (helped develop morphotactics and morphophonology) Chuvash (helped develop morphotactics and morphophonology) Turkmen (helped develop morphotactics and morphophonology)	Uzbek-Kyrgyz Qaraqalpaq-Uzbek
	Ilnar Salimzyanov	selimcan	* Kazakh-Tatar (primary developer)
	Gianluca Grossi (wiki)	zfe	* Uzbek-Turkish (oversaw development)
	Mikel Forcada
	Aida Sundetova
	Akın Dalkı

Previous contributors

Photo	Name	IRC nick	Turkic projects involved in (role)	Other Turkic projects interested in
	Mirlan Ipasov
	Hèctor Alòs i Font
	Röstäm Batalov

Contact

To contact the Apertium Turkic team, you can find us on apertium's IRC channel, send one of us a message through the wiki, or send a message to ___PRaddresshere___.

We maintain a low-traffic mailing list (apertium-turkic@lists.sourceforge.net) where occasional discussion and announcements occur. See our archives or subscribe to join in on the fun!