In this paper, we describe the design and integration of a three level cascaded non-deterministic finite state model of Turkish compounding into Turkish PAPPI, a comprehensive syntactic parser in the principles-andparameters(P&P) framework. Our approach is to handle compounding as an intermediate stage between morphological analysis and syntactic parsing. We discuss how the compounding machine handles bracketing paradoxes and adjectives in compounds and how the nondeterminism allows for ambiguity due to different bracketings and Turkish subject/object pro-drop.
['Aysenur Birturk', 'Sandiway Fong']
A Modular Approach to Turkish Noun Compounding: The Integration of a Finite-State Model