If you're looking for unpublished term papers I wrote in grad school, see my old research page.
- Peer-reviewed articles
- Conference presentations
- Books
- Theses
- Roundtable and invited talks
- Digital Scholarship
- Other published contributions (invited, honorary, etc.)
Peer-reviewed articles
2026
Negation of Turkic non-verbal clauses: Analysis and Universal Dependencies Implementation
Nikolett Mus, Furkan Akkurt, Bermet Chontaeva, Soudabeh Eslami, Sardana Ivanova, Çağrı Çöltekin, , Gulnura Dzhumalieva, and Aida Kasieva
Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026), at the 15th biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026), Palma, Mallorca, Espanya, 97–102
The Phonology of Turkish
and Nicholas Kontovas
International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
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2025
Central Asian Turkic and Khalkha Past Tense Systems Arose Through Balanced Contact
Joshua Sims, Zhiyu Mia Gong, and
Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic (Tu+10), University of Southern California
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The Annotation of Turkic Copula Verbs in UD
Aida Kasieva, Nikolett Mus, Arofat Akhundjanova, Furkan Akkurt, Bermet Chontaeva, Gulnura Dzhumalieva, Soudabeh Eslami, Murat Jumashev, and
Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering (UBMK 2025), 1772–1777
2024
Strategies for the Annotation of Pronominalised Locatives in Turkic Universal Dependency Treebanks
, Çağrı Çöltekin, Furkan Akkurt, Bermet Chontaeva, Soudabeh Eslami, Gulnura Jumalieva, Aida Kasieva, Aslı Kuzgun, Büşra Marşan, and Chihiro Taguchi
Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies (MWE-UD 2024) at the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), 207–219
2023
Issues of Kyrgyz syntactic annotation within the Universal Dependencies framework
Aida Kasieva, Gulnura Dzhumalieva, Anna Thompson, Murat Jumashev, Bermet Chontaeva, and
Proceedings of the XI International Conference on Computer Processing of Turkic Languages (TurkLang 2023)
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2022
2021
Towards a morphological transducer and orthography converter for Western Tlacolula Valley Zapotec
, Felipe H. Lopez, and Brook Danielle Lillehaugen
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP), 185–193
2020
2019
Free/Open-Source technologies for Turkic languages developed in the Apertium project
, Ilnar Salimzianov, Francis M. Tyers, Memduh Gökırmak, Sardana Ivanova, and Oğuzhan Kuyrukçu
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Computer Processing of Turkic Languages (TurkLang 2019), 30–71
An Investigation of the Articulatory Correlates of Vowel Anteriority in Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and Turkish using Ultrasound Tongue Imaging
Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC42) University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 25, 219–228
2018
An ultrasound study of the articulatory correlates of vowel anteriority in three Turkic languages
Tu+1: Proceedings of the first workshop on Turkish, Turkic and the languages of Turkey: November 21 - November 22, 2015, UMass Amherst, 161–178
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Apertium's Web Toolchain for Low-Resource Language Technology
Sushain Cherivirala, Shardul Chiplunkar, , and Kevin Brubeck Unhammer
The 13th Conference of The Association for Machine Translation in the Americas Workshop Proceedings: Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT 2018), 53–62
A finite-State morphological analyzer for Wolaytta
Tewodros A. Gebreselassie, , and Michael Gasser
Information and Communication Technology for Development for Africa: Proceedings for the First International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Development for Africa (ICT4DA 2017), Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, September 25-27, 2017. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, 244, 14–23
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
A prototype machine translation system for Tatar and Bashkir based on free/open-source components
Tyers, Francis, , Ilnar Salimzyan, and Rustam Batalov
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Resources and Technologies for Turkic Languages at the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), İstanbul, Turkey, 11–14
Conference presentations
2026
Negation of Turkic non-verbal clauses: Analysis and Universal Dependencies Implementation
Nikolett Mus, Furkan Akkurt, Bermet Chontaeva, Soudabeh Eslami, Sardana Ivanova, Çağrı Çöltekin, , Gulnura Dzhumalieva, and Aida Kasieva
The Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026), at the 15th biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026), Palma, Mallorca, Espanya
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A Morphological Transducer for the Limbu Language
Avyaya Singh and
The second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL), at the 15th biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026), Palma, Mallorca, Espanya
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Tokenisation of Turkic Copula Constructions in Universal Dependencies
Cağrı Çöltekin, Furkan Akkurt, Bermet Chontaeva, Soudabeh Eslami, Sardana Ivanova, Gulnura Dzhumalieva, Aida Kasieva, Nikolett Mus, and
SIGTURK 2026 Workshop @ EACL 2026 (The Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Turkic Languages at The 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, organised by the Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on Turkic Languages), ⵕⵕⴱⴰⵟ, ⵍⵎⵖⵔⵉⴱ
2025
The Annotation of Turkic Copula Verbs in UD
Aida Kasieva, Nikolett Mus, Arofat Akhundjanova, Furkan Akkurt, Bermet Chontaeva, Gulnura Dzhumalieva, Soudabeh Eslami, Murat Jumashev, and
The XIII International Conference on Computer Processing of Turkic Languages (TurkLang 2025) at the 10th International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering (UBMK 2025), İstanbul, Türkiye (+online)
Space and Attention in the Kyrgyz Demonstrative System
Eszter Ótott-Kovács, Tolgonay Kubatova, Harrison Saunders, and
The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2025), Philadelphia
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A new approach to calculating allophonic balance and functional load
Naomi Gurevich, Zhenisbek Assylbekov, Maxat Tezekbayev, Heejin Kim, and
The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2025), Philadelphia
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Only weak /n/asals in Kazakh maximize sonority falls
Andrew Lamont and
The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2025), Philadelphia
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2024
Vector Embeddings and Signal Phrases for Word-Sense Disambiguation in Kyrgyz
Aida Kasieva, Gulnura Dzhumalieva, Aizat Kadyrbekova, Murat Jumashev, Turgunbek Omurkanov, Aikokul Tashpulatova, Adilet Sadambekov, and
The XII International Conference on Computer Processing of Turkic Languages (TurkLang 2024), Qazan, Tatarstan
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An X6-1 transducer clip for the UltraFit headset
Saumya Raj and
UltraFest XI: Ultrasound Imaging for Speech and Language Conference, 会津若松市, 日本国 (+online)
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Strategies for the Annotation of Pronominalised Locatives in Turkic Universal Dependency Treebanks
, Çağrı Çöltekin, Furkan Akkurt, Bermet Chontaeva, Soudabeh Eslami, Gulnura Jumalieva, Aida Kasieva, Aslı Kuzgun, Büşra Marşan, and Chihiro Taguchi
Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies (MWE-UD 2024) at the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), Turin, Italia
Turkic Relative Clauses in Northern Tajik Persian: From Analytic to Synthetic Morphology
Afsheen Sharifzadeh, Hossep Dolatian, and
9th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic (Tu+9), Cornell University
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Unifying the Annotations in Turkic Universal Dependencies Treebanks
Furkan Akkurt, Bermet Chontaeva, Çağrı Cöltekin, Mehmet Oguz Derin, Gulnura Dzhumalieva, Soudabeh Eslami, Tunga Güngör, Sardana Ivanova, Murat Jumashev, Aida Kasieva, Aslı Kuzgun, Büşra Marşan, Balkız Öztürk, Chihiro Taguchi, Suzan Üsküdarlı, , and Olcay Taner Yıldız
Universality, diversity and idiosyncrasy in language technology (UniDive) 2nd general meeting, Napule, Italia
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2023
Issues of Kyrgyz syntactic annotation within the Universal Dependencies framework
Aida Kasieva, Gulnura Dzhumalieva, Anna Thompson, Murat Jumashev, Bermet Chontaeva, and
The XI International Conference on Computer Processing of Turkic Languages (TurkLang 2023), Buxoro, O‘zbekiston (+online)
2022
A Free/Open-Source Morphological Transducer for Western Armenian
Hossep Dolatian, Daniel G. Swanson, and
«Processing Language Variation: Digital Armenian» (DigitAm) Workshop at the Thirteenth Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022), Marselha, França (+online)
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Mongolic loanwords in Kazakh and Kyrgyz
Joint Annual Meeting of the Mongolia Society and Annual Central Eurasian Studies Society Conference, Indiana University
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2021
A Prototype Free/Open-Source Morphological Analyser and Generator for Sakha
Sardana Ivanova, Francis M. Tyers, and
The fifth Widening NLP Workshop (WiNLP) at 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2021), Punta Cana, República Dominicana (+online)
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Kyrgyz Encodes Non-Confirmativity in its Past-Tense Paradigm
Martin Rakowszczyk, , and Tolgonay Kubatova
20th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics (ICTL20), Anadolu Üniversitesi, Eskişehir, Türkiye (online)
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2020
Why categorising Turkic non-finite verb forms correctly matters for NLP
and Francis M. Tyers
The Eighth International Conference on Computer Processing of Turkic Languages (TurkLang 2020), Öfö, Bashqortostan (+online)
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An ultrasound study of dorsal stops in Tatar and Qumuq
, Denis Tokmashev, Alsu Badrtdinova, Zarema Tarkovskaya, Mark Zimin, Vera Maltseva, Nikolay Urtegeshev, Tatiana Ryzhikova, Valeriya Lemskaya, and Anna Dybo
UltraFest IX: Ultrasound Imaging for Speech and Language Virtual Conference
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UltraTrace: A free/open-source cross-platform tool for manual annotation of ultrasound tongue imaging data
Kevin Murphy, Nathaniel Ziv Stern, Daniel Swanson, Caleb Ho, and
UltraFest IX: Ultrasound Imaging for Speech and Language Virtual Conference
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Undershoot in Kyrgyz short vowels is articulatory conditioned
Nathaniel Ziv Stern and
UltraFest IX: Ultrasound Imaging for Speech and Language Virtual Conference
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Stem Identity in Kazakh
Andrew Lamont and
The 94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2020)
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2019
Free/Open-Source technologies for Turkic languages developed in the Apertium project
, Ilnar Salimzianov, Francis M. Tyers, Memduh Gökırmak, Sardana Ivanova, and Oğuzhan Kuyrukçu
The Seventh International Conference on Computer Processing of Turkic Languages (TurkLang 2019), Aqmescit/Simferopol, Republic of Crimea
A biscriptual morphological transducer for Crimean Tatar
Francis M. Tyers, , Darya Kavitskaya, Memduh Gökırmak, Nick Howell, and Remziye Berberova
ComputEL-3: 3rd Workshop on Computational Methods for Endangered Languages
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The phonetic correlates of the Kyrgyz vowel length distinction
Nathaniel Ziv Stern and
Tu+4: 4th workshop on Turkic and languages in contact with Turkic, New York University
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Delineating Turkic non-finite verb forms by syntactic function
and Francis M. Tyers
Tu+4: 4th workshop on Turkic and languages in contact with Turkic, New York University
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2018
A phonetic study of the vowel system of Teleut
and Denis Tokmashev
19th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics (ICTL 19), Astana, Kazakhstan
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Rule-based machine translation from Kazakh to Turkish
Sevilay Bayatli, Sefer Kurnaz, Ilnar Salimzyanov, , and Francis M. Tyers
The 21st Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2018), Alacant, Espanya
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Apertium's Web Toolchain for Low-Resource Language Technology
Sushain Cherivirala, Shardul Chiplunkar, , and Kevin Brubeck Unhammer
The 13th Conference of The Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT @ AMTA 2018), Boston, MA
2017
An assessment of Universal Dependency annotation guidelines for Turkic languages
Francis M. Tyers, , Çağrı Çöltekin, and Aibek Makazhanov
Fifth International Conference on Turkic Language Processing (TurkLang 2017), Qazan, Tatarstan
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A finite-State morphological analyzer for Wolaytta
Tewodros A. Gebreselassie, , and Michael Gasser
European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) International Conference on Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for Development for Africa, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
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The relation of some Yuan-era Turkic words to the Siberian Sibilant Shift
and Christopher P. Atwood
18th annual conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society, Seattle, WA
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Syllable-aware Neural Language Models: A Failure to Beat Character-aware Ones
Zhenisbek Assylbekov, Rustem Takhanov, Bagdat Myrzakhmetov, and
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Towards a Systematic Functional Description of Turkic Nominal Morphosyntax
and Francis Tyers
Sixth regional conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society / Joint ESCAS/CESS Conference, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
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2016
An Acoustic Analysis of Vowel Insertion at Syllable Edges in Turkish
Hassan Bokhari, Mustafa Durmaz, and
Second Conference on Central Asian Languages and Linguistics (ConCALL-2), Indiana University
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An investigation of the vowel anteriority contrast in three Turkic languages using ultrasound tongue imaging
Workshop on Turkish, Turkic and the languages of Turkey (Tu+2), Indiana University
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Phylogenetic simulations over constraint-based grammar formalisms
Andrew Lamont and
Student Research Workshop at the 15th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, San Diego, California
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Modeling Turkic vowel systems articulatorily using ultrasound
23rd annual ACES Central Eurasian Studies Conference, Bloomington, IN
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A free/open-source hybrid morphological disambiguation tool for Kazakh
Zhenisbek Assylbekov, , Francis Tyers, Assulan Nurkas, Aida Sundetova, Aidana Karibayeva, Balzhan Abduali, and Dina Amirova
The First International Conference on Turkic Computational Linguistics at the 17th Annual Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, Konya, Turkey
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A finite-state morphological analyser for Tuvan
Francis Tyers, , Aziyana Bayyr-ool, and Aelita Salchak
Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), Portorož, Slovenia
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2015
An ultrasound study of the articulatory correlates of vowel anteriority in three Turkic languages
Workshop on Turkish, Turkic and the languages of Turkey (Tu+1), UMass Amherst
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An Ultrasound Study of the Articulatory Correlates of Vowel Anteriority in Kazakh and Kyrgyz
20th Mid-Continental Phonetics Phonology Conference (MidPhon 20), Indiana University
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Finite-state morphologies and text corpora as resources for improving morphological descriptions
Francis Tyers, Tommi Pirinen, and
Workshop on Computational Phonology and Morphology at the Linguistic Summer Institute, University of Chicago
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Comparing Distance Metrics for Optimality Theoretic Grammars
Andrew Lamont and
Workshop on Computational Phonology and Morphology at the Linguistic Summer Institute, University of Chicago
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2014
Designing finite-state morphological transducers for Kypchak languages
, Ilnar Salimzyanov, and Francis M. Tyers
MorphologyFest: Symposium on Morphological Complexity, Bloomington, IN
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Finite-state morphological transducers for three Kypchak languages
, Ilnar Salimzyanov, and Francis M. Tyers
Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), Reykjavík, Iceland
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Stress in Saudi Diaspora Uzbek and its relation to stress in Turkish
Hassan Bokhari and
First Conference on Central Asian Languages and Linguistics (ConCALL), Bloomington, IN
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2013
A free/open-source Kazakh-Tatar machine translation system
Ilnar Salimzyanov, , and Francis Morton Tyers
Machine Translation Summit XIV, Nice, France
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Challenges to designing morphological transducers for Turkic languages
20th annual ACES Central Eurasian Studies Conference, Bloomington, IN
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2012
How Much Contact can Change a Language? The Cases of Kyrgyz, Khalka, and Uyghur
, Niko Kontovas, and Andrew Shimunek
13th annual conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society, Bloomington, IN
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A prototype machine translation system for Tatar and Bashkir based on free/open-source components
Francis Tyers, , Ilnar Salimzyanov, and Rustam Batalov
Eighth annual International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), İstanbul, Turkey
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Language change in progress: the effect of language contact on the phoneme inventory of Central Eurasian languages
, Niko Kontovas, and Andrew Shimunek
19th annual ACES Central Eurasian Studies Conference, Indiana University
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2011
Phonological unfaithfulness of Turkic /n/ in initial position
12th annual conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society, Columbus, OH
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Accounting for consonantal nasal harmony in Kazakh
Fifth annual Linguistics Department Graduate Student Conference, Indiana University
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Morpheme-initial unfaithfulness after consonants in Turkic languages
18th annual ACES Central Eurasian Studies Conference, Indiana University
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2010
Understanding the history of Turkic-Turkic language contact in the Altay region
Fourth annual Linguistics Department Graduate Student Conference, Indiana University
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Turkic-Turkic language contact in the Altay and the linguistic origins of Kyrgyz
17th annual ACES Central Eurasian Studies Conference, Indiana University
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2009
Insights on Coda Cluster Phonology in Kazakh and Kyrgyz from a Split-Margin Approach
Tenth annual conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society, Toronto, Canada
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Evidence for the Sonority Scale in Kazakh
Third annual Linguistics Department Graduate Student Conference, Indiana University
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Complex codas in Kazakh and Kyrygz
16th annual ACES Central Eurasian Studies Conference, Indiana University
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2008
Historical Interactions among Turkic Groups Inferred through Constraint-based Linguistic Typology
Ninth annual conference on the Central Eurasian Studies Society, Washington, D.C.
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2007
Theoretical linguistics meets Turkic languages: A unification of inter- and cross-linguistic patterns
19th annual Nicholas Poppe Symposium on Central/Inner Asian Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, University of Washington
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2006
A Novel Approach to Delineating Kazakh's Five Present Tenses: Lexical Aspect
Eightieth annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2006)
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2005
Aspect in the Present Tense in Kazakh: Auxiliaries and their Delineation
Sixth annual conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society, Boston, MA
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Indicating the Present Tense in Kazakh: By Auxiliary or Light Verb?
Third annual Harvard Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium
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1999
Does the Hebrew alphabet contain phonetic instructions?
J.N. Washington and P.A. Washington
Arkansas Philological Association, 26th Annual Meeting Program, 16–16
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Books
2026
Theses
2016
2010
2005
An Investigation into Light Verbs in Kazakh (And Their Grammaticalization in the Present Tense)
Senior Honors Thesis
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Roundtable and invited talks
2026
Central (Eur)asian Studies at the TriCo: A Covert Curriculum
Slavic and Eurasian Studies Today: An Interdisciplinary Symposium Sponsored by the Mellon Tri-College Faculty Forum
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2025
2024
Gender and pronouns in three language families
Genders and Pronouns Across Languages, Swarthmore College
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2022
2021
The Phonetics and Phonology of Turkic Vowels and Vowel Harmony
University of Pennsylvania Phonetics Lab meeting
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Tracking cultural contact across Eurasia through the Siberian Sibilant Shift
Swarthmore Chinese Senior Colloquium
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2020
Зейнехан апайды қазақ тілі оқулықтарының шығуымен құттықтау / Congratulations to Zeynekhan apay on the publication of her Kazakh textbooks
Профессор Зейнехан Күзекованың қазақ тілі оқулықтары тұсаукесері / Presentation of Kazakh language textbooks by Professor Zeinekhan Kuzekova. Prerecorded presentation for event in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
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Current Turkic ultrasound tongue imaging findings from the Swarthmore Phonetics Lab
University of Delaware Phon Group. Distance presentation
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2019
Using a wiki in the teaching of Computational Linguistics
Textbook Alternatives: Open and Affordable Resources in the Classroom, Swarthmore College Library. Panelist
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2018
Латын әліпбиіне көшу туралы Американдық бір лингвисттің ой-пікірлері (An American linguist's thoughts on the switch to the Latin alphabet)
Латын әліпбиіне көшу — тарихи таңдау (Switching to the Latin alphabet — a historic decision), Almaty, Kazakhstan. Distance presentation
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2017
Examining category differences in ultrasound tongue traces
Swarthmore College Academic Technology Stats Lunch
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Relating Yuan-era Turkic data to the Siberian Sibilant Shift
and Christopher P. Atwood
Swarthmore College Linguistics Research Roundtable
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Free/open-source text-processing technologies for Turkic languages
and Francis Tyers
Symposium on Turkic Languages and Linguistics, Seattle, WA
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Эркин/ачык булактуу тил технологиялары кыргыз жана тектеш тилдер үчүн (Free/Open-Source language technologies for Kyrgyz and beyond)
Open Educational Resources 2017 Summer Camp, Naryn, Kyrgyzstan
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2015
Морфологический анализ (Morphological analysis)
UULangTech2015: Улан-Удэнский семинар по языковым технологиям / Ulan-Ude seminar on Language Technologies, Кафедра филологии Центральной Азии Восточного института Бурятского государственного университета
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Turkic languages and models of language relatedness
Languages and Cultures of Asia graduate seminar, University of Wisconsin
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2014
Tongue Root Vowel Contrasts in Turkic and Mongolic languages
Central Eurasian Studies Brown Bag Series, Indiana University
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2012
Writing morphological transducers for Turkic languages using HFST
CLingDing, discussion group of the IU Computational Linguistics community, Indiana University
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The Apertium Machine Translation System
Francis Tyers and
TEL conference on computational and cognitive linguistics, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan, Qazan, Tatarstan
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2007
Phonetic and Phonological Problems in Kyrgyz: A Fulbrighter's plans for gathering data in the field
Indiana University Linguistics Department
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Digital Scholarship
2024–present
Apertium-haa: A prototype Free/Open-Source morphological transducer for Hän
Maura O’Leary, Joseph Lukner, Finn Verdonk, Willem de Reuse, and
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#analysis?aLang=haa
ultrapolaRplot: A free/open-source R library for plotting tongue traces
Yana Outkin and
Also available through CRAN: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ultrapolaRplot/
2024
2023–present
Apertium-uum: A prototype Free/Open-Source morphological transducer for Urum
Alina Vykliuk, Sasha Casada, and
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#analysis?aLang=uum
2023
Apertium-kat: A prototype Free/Open-Source morphological transducer for Georgian
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#analysis?aLang=kat
2021–present
Apertium-unm: A prototype Free/Open-Source morphological transducer for Unami Lenape
and Zachary Kelly
In conjunction with Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania language classes. Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#analysis?aLang=unm
2021
Apertium-ote: A prototype Free/Open-Source morphological transducer for Hñähñu (Otomí of Mezquital)
and others
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#analysis?aLang=ote
Apertium-spa-ote: A prototype Free/Open-Source rule-based machine translation system for Spanish and Hñähñu (Otomí of Mezquital)
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#translation?dir=spa-ote
2020–present
Apertium-tki: A prototype Free/Open-Source morphological transducer for Iraqi Turkmen
Sevilay Bayatlı, , and others
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#analysis?aLang=tki
Apertium-zab: A prototype Free/Open-Source morphological transducer and orthography converter for Dizhsa (Western Tlacolula Valley Zapotec)
, Felipe H. Lopez, and Brook Danielle Lillehaugen
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#analysis?aLang=zab
Apertium-tur-tki: A prototype Free/Open-Source rule-based machine translation system for Turkish and Iraqi Turkmen
Sevilay Bayatlı and
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#translation?dir=tur-tki
2020
2019–present
Apertium-eng-kir: A prototype Free/Open-Source rule-based machine translation system for English and Kyrgyz
and Daniel Swanson
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#translation?dir=eng-kir
2018
2017–present
Apertium-krc: A Free/Open-Source morphological transducer for Karachay-Balkar
Francis M. Tyers, , and others
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#analysis?aLang=krc
Apertium-kum: A Free/Open-Source morphological transducer for Qumuq
Francis M. Tyers, , Ağarahim Sultanmuradov, and others
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#analysis?aLang=kum
2016–present
Apertium-ibo: A prototype Free/Open-Source morphological transducer for Igbo
Okonkwo Ifeanyichukwu, , Ryan Chi, and Francis M. Tyers
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#analysis?aLang=ibo
Apertium-byv: A prototype Free/Open-Source morphological transducer for Mə̀dʉ̂mbà
Francis M. Tyers, Ngadou Yopa, Anastasia Kuznetsova, , and others
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#analysis?aLang=byv
2016
Free/open source dependency syntax annotated corpus of Kazakh
Aibek Makazhanov, , and Francis Tyers
Free/open source dependency syntax annotation guidelines for Kazakh
Aibek Makazhanov, , and Francis Tyers
2015–present
UD Annotatrix: An annotation tool for Universal Dependencies
Maria Sheyanova, Francis M. Tyers, , Jonathan Pan, Kevin Murphy, Alyaxey Yaskevich, Grzegorz Stark, Diogo S.C. Fernandes, and others
10–17. Public deployment at http://jonorthwash.github.io/ud-annotatrix
Apertium-alt: A prototype Free/Open-Source morphological transducer for Southern Altay
Denis Tokmashev, , Francis M. Tyers, and others
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#analysis?aLang=alt
Apertium-uzb-kaa: A prototype Free/Open-Source rule-based machine translation system for Uzbek and Qaraqalpaq
Sharapat Kalabaev, Amirniyaz Mambetniyazov, Azamat Akimniyazov, , Ilnar Salimzianov, Francis M. Tyers, and others
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#translation?dir=uzb-kaa
2015–2018
Apertium-wal: A Free/Open-Source morphological transducer for Wolaytta
Tewodros A. Gebreselassie, , and others
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#analysis?aLang=wal
2014–present
Apertium-sah: A Free/Open-Source morphological transducer for Sakha
Sardana Ivanova, , Francis M. Tyers, and others
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#analysis?aLang=sah
Apertium-kjh: A prototype Free/Open-Source morphological transducer for Khakas
Francis M. Tyers, , and others
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#analysis?aLang=kjh
Apertium-uig: A prototype Free/Open-Source multi-scriptual morphological transducer for Uyghur
Oğuzhan Kuyrukçu, Francis M. Tyers, , Memduh Gökırmak, Mardan Hoshur, Connor Mayer, and others
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#analysis?aLang=uig
Apertium-yid: A prototype Free/Open-Source morphological transducer for Yiddish
and others
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#analysis?aLang=yid
Apertium-sjo: A prototype Free/Open-Source morphological transducer for Sibe
, Francis M. Tyers, and others
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#analysis?aLang=sjo
Apertium-crh: A Free/Open-Source biscriptual morphological transducer for Crimean Tatar
Francis M. Tyers, , Darya Kavitskaya, Memduh Gökırmak, Remziye Berberova, and others
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#analysis?aLang=crh
Apertium-kaz-uig: A prototype Free/Open-Source rule-based machine translation system for Kazakh and Uyghur
, Francis M. Tyers, and Mardan Hoshur
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#translation?dir=kaz-uig
2013–present
Apertium-kaa: A Free/Open-Source multi-scriptual morphological transducer for Qaraqalpaq
, Francis M. Tyers, Beknazar Abdikamalov, Ilnar Salimzianov, Amirniyaz Mambetniyazov, Sharapat Kalabaev, and others
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#analysis?aLang=kaa
Apertium-nog: A prototype Free/Open-Source morphological transducer for Noghay
Francis M. Tyers, , and others
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#analysis?aLang=nog
Apertium-uzb: A Free/Open-Source multi-scriptual morphological transducer for Uzbek
Elmurod Kuriyozov, Oğuzhan Kuyrukçu, , Francis M. Tyers, Ilnar Salimzyanov, Sharapat Kalabaev, Kantoro Erkulov, and others
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#analysis?aLang=uzb
Apertium-kaz-kaa: A prototype Free/Open-Source rule-based machine translation system for Kazakh and Qaraqalpaq
Beknazar Abdikamalov, Francis M. Tyers, , and others
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#translation?dir=kaz-kaa
Apertium-khk-kaz: A prototype Free/Open-Source rule-based machine translation system for Khalkha Mongolian and Kazakh
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#translation?dir=khk-kaz
Apertium-tur-uzb: A prototype Free/Open-Source rule-based machine translation system for Turkish and Uzbek
Oğuzhan Kuyrukçu, Elmurod Kuriyozov, Francis M. Tyers, Gianluca Grossi, Akın Dalki, , Sevilay Bayatlı, and others
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#translation?dir=tur-uzb
2012–present
Apertium-tyv: A Free/Open-Source morphological transducer for Tuvan
Aziyana Bayyr-ool, Aelita Salchak, Francis M. Tyers, , and others
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#analysis?aLang=tyv
Apertium-chv: A Free/Open-Source morphological transducer for Chuvash
Francis M. Tyers, Hèctor Alòs i Font, Nikolay Aleksandrov, Ilnar Salimzianov, , and others
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#analysis?aLang=chv
Apertium-khk: A prototype Free/Open-Source morphological transducer for Khalkha Mongolian
, Anarsaikhan Tuvshinjargal, and others
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#analysis?aLang=khk
Apertium-eng-kaz: A prototype Free/Open-Source rule-based machine translation system for English and Kazakh
Aida Sundetov, Francis M. Tyers, Mikel L. Forcada, Dina Amirova, , Ilnar Salimzianov, and others
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#translation?dir=eng-kaz
Apertium-kaz-tat: A Free/Open-Source rule-based machine translation system for Kazakh and Tatar
Ilnar Salimzianov, , Francis M. Tyers, and others
Can be used online at https://apertium.org/#translation?dir=kaz-tat
2011–present
Apertium-kaz: A Free/Open-Source multi-scriptual morphological transducer for Kazakh
Ilnar Salimzianov, , Francis M. Tyers, Aida Sundetov, Zhenisbek Assylbekov, Dina Amirova, Kantoro Erkulov, Sevilay Bayatlı, Assel Baltabayeva, Ryan Chi, and others
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#analysis?aLang=kaz
Apertium-kir: A Free/Open-Source multi-scriptual morphological transducer for Kyrgyz
, Mirlan Ipasov, Kantoro Erkulov, Francis M. Tyers, Oğuzhan Kuyrukçu, and others
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#analysis?aLang=kir
Apertium-bak: A Free/Open-Source morphological transducer for Bashqort
Anna Zueva, Ilnar Salimzianov, Rustam Batalov, Francis M. Tyers, , and others
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#analysis?aLang=bak
Apertium-tat: A Free/Open-Source morphological transducer for Tatar
Ilnar Salmizianov, Mansur Saykhunov, , Francis M. Tyers, Anna Zueva, and others
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#analysis?aLang=tat
Apertium-tur: A Free/Open-Source morphological transducer for Turkish
Francis M. Tyers, Oğuzhan Kuyrukçu, , Gianluca Grossi, Memduh Gökırmak, Sevilay Bayatlı, Ilnar Salimzianov, Elmurod Kuriyozov, and others
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#analysis?aLang=tur
Apertium-tur-kir: A prototype Free/Open-Source rule-based machine translation system for Turkish and Kyrgyz
Francis M. Tyers, , Mirlan Ipasov, Oğuzhan Kuyrukçu, and Trond Trosterud
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#translation?dir=tur-kir
Apertium-tat-bak: A prototype Free/Open-Source rule-based machine translation system for Tatar and Bashqort
Ilnar Salimzianov, Rustam Batalov, Francis M. Tyers, , Anna Zueva, and others
Can be used online at https://beta.apertium.org/#translation?dir=tat-bak
Other published contributions (invited, honorary, etc.)
2023
A Tree-Based Structural Transfer Module for the Apertium Machine Translation Platform
Daniel G. Swanson, , Francis M. Tyers, and Mikel L. Forcada
Language Resources and Evaluation
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2021
SIGMORPHON 2021 Shared Task on Morphological Reinflection: Generalization Across Languages
Tiago Pimentel, Maria Ryskina, Sabrina J. Mielke, Shijie Wu, Eleanor Chodroff, Brian Leonard, Garrett Nicolai, Yustinus Ghanggo Ate, Salam Khalifa, Nizar Habash, Charbel El-Khaissi, Omer Goldman, Michael Gasser, William Lane, Matt Coler, Arturo Oncevay, Jaime Rafael Montoya Samame, Gema Celeste Silva Villegas, Adam Ek, Jean-Philippe Bernardy, Andrey Shcherbakov, Aziyana Bayyr-ool, Karina Sheifer, Sofya Ganieva, Matvey Plugaryov, Elena Klyachko, Ali Salehi, Andrew Krizhanovsky, Natalia Krizhanovsky, Clara Vania, Sardana Ivanova, Aelita Salchak, Christopher Straughn, Zoey Liu, , Duygu Ataman, Witold Kieraś, Marcin Woliński, Totok Suhardijanto, Niklas Stoehr, Zahroh Nuriah, Shyam Ratan, Francis M. Tyers, Edoardo M. Ponti, Grant Aiton, Richard J. Hatcher, Emily Prudʼhommeaux, Ritesh Kumar, Mans Hulden, Botond Barta, Dorina Lakatos, Gábor Szolnok, Judit Ács, Mohit Raj, David Yarowsky, Ryan Cotterell, Ben Ambridge, and Ekaterina Vylomova
Proceedings of the 18th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, 229–259
- Language technology
- Computational linguistics
- Socio-historical linguistics
- Vowels
- Syllable-edge phonology
- Language Documentation
Language technology
2026
Negation of Turkic non-verbal clauses: Analysis and Universal Dependencies Implementation
Nikolett Mus, Furkan Akkurt, Bermet Chontaeva, Soudabeh Eslami, Sardana Ivanova, Çağrı Çöltekin, , Gulnura Dzhumalieva, and Aida Kasieva
Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026), at the 15th biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026), Palma, Mallorca, Espanya, 97–102
Negation of Turkic non-verbal clauses: Analysis and Universal Dependencies Implementation
Nikolett Mus, Furkan Akkurt, Bermet Chontaeva, Soudabeh Eslami, Sardana Ivanova, Çağrı Çöltekin, , Gulnura Dzhumalieva, and Aida Kasieva
The Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026), at the 15th biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026), Palma, Mallorca, Espanya
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A Morphological Transducer for the Limbu Language
Avyaya Singh and
The second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL), at the 15th biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026), Palma, Mallorca, Espanya
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Tokenisation of Turkic Copula Constructions in Universal Dependencies
Cağrı Çöltekin, Furkan Akkurt, Bermet Chontaeva, Soudabeh Eslami, Sardana Ivanova, Gulnura Dzhumalieva, Aida Kasieva, Nikolett Mus, and
SIGTURK 2026 Workshop @ EACL 2026 (The Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Turkic Languages at The 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, organised by the Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on Turkic Languages), ⵕⵕⴱⴰⵟ, ⵍⵎⵖⵔⵉⴱ
2025
The Annotation of Turkic Copula Verbs in UD
Aida Kasieva, Nikolett Mus, Arofat Akhundjanova, Furkan Akkurt, Bermet Chontaeva, Gulnura Dzhumalieva, Soudabeh Eslami, Murat Jumashev, and
Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering (UBMK 2025), 1772–1777
The Annotation of Turkic Copula Verbs in UD
Aida Kasieva, Nikolett Mus, Arofat Akhundjanova, Furkan Akkurt, Bermet Chontaeva, Gulnura Dzhumalieva, Soudabeh Eslami, Murat Jumashev, and
The XIII International Conference on Computer Processing of Turkic Languages (TurkLang 2025) at the 10th International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering (UBMK 2025), İstanbul, Türkiye (+online)
2024
Vector Embeddings and Signal Phrases for Word-Sense Disambiguation in Kyrgyz
Aida Kasieva, Gulnura Dzhumalieva, Aizat Kadyrbekova, Murat Jumashev, Turgunbek Omurkanov, Aikokul Tashpulatova, Adilet Sadambekov, and
The XII International Conference on Computer Processing of Turkic Languages (TurkLang 2024), Qazan, Tatarstan
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Strategies for the Annotation of Pronominalised Locatives in Turkic Universal Dependency Treebanks
, Çağrı Çöltekin, Furkan Akkurt, Bermet Chontaeva, Soudabeh Eslami, Gulnura Jumalieva, Aida Kasieva, Aslı Kuzgun, Büşra Marşan, and Chihiro Taguchi
Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies (MWE-UD 2024) at the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), 207–219
Strategies for the Annotation of Pronominalised Locatives in Turkic Universal Dependency Treebanks
, Çağrı Çöltekin, Furkan Akkurt, Bermet Chontaeva, Soudabeh Eslami, Gulnura Jumalieva, Aida Kasieva, Aslı Kuzgun, Büşra Marşan, and Chihiro Taguchi
Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies (MWE-UD 2024) at the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), Turin, Italia
Unifying the Annotations in Turkic Universal Dependencies Treebanks
Furkan Akkurt, Bermet Chontaeva, Çağrı Cöltekin, Mehmet Oguz Derin, Gulnura Dzhumalieva, Soudabeh Eslami, Tunga Güngör, Sardana Ivanova, Murat Jumashev, Aida Kasieva, Aslı Kuzgun, Büşra Marşan, Balkız Öztürk, Chihiro Taguchi, Suzan Üsküdarlı, , and Olcay Taner Yıldız
Extended abstract at Universality, diversity and idiosyncrasy in language technology (UniDive) 2nd general meeting, Napule, Italia
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Unifying the Annotations in Turkic Universal Dependencies Treebanks
Furkan Akkurt, Bermet Chontaeva, Çağrı Cöltekin, Mehmet Oguz Derin, Gulnura Dzhumalieva, Soudabeh Eslami, Tunga Güngör, Sardana Ivanova, Murat Jumashev, Aida Kasieva, Aslı Kuzgun, Büşra Marşan, Balkız Öztürk, Chihiro Taguchi, Suzan Üsküdarlı, , and Olcay Taner Yıldız
Universality, diversity and idiosyncrasy in language technology (UniDive) 2nd general meeting, Napule, Italia
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2023
Issues of Kyrgyz syntactic annotation within the Universal Dependencies framework
Aida Kasieva, Gulnura Dzhumalieva, Anna Thompson, Murat Jumashev, Bermet Chontaeva, and
Proceedings of the XI International Conference on Computer Processing of Turkic Languages (TurkLang 2023)
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Issues of Kyrgyz syntactic annotation within the Universal Dependencies framework
Aida Kasieva, Gulnura Dzhumalieva, Anna Thompson, Murat Jumashev, Bermet Chontaeva, and
The XI International Conference on Computer Processing of Turkic Languages (TurkLang 2023), Buxoro, O‘zbekiston (+online)
A Tree-Based Structural Transfer Module for the Apertium Machine Translation Platform
Daniel G. Swanson, , Francis M. Tyers, and Mikel L. Forcada
Language Resources and Evaluation
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2022
A Free/Open-Source Morphological Transducer for Western Armenian
Hossep Dolatian, Daniel G. Swanson, and
«Processing Language Variation: Digital Armenian» (DigitAm) Workshop at the Thirteenth Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022), Marselha, França (+online)
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2021
A Prototype Free/Open-Source Morphological Analyser and Generator for Sakha
Sardana Ivanova, Francis M. Tyers, and
The fifth Widening NLP Workshop (WiNLP) at 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2021), Punta Cana, República Dominicana (+online)
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SIGMORPHON 2021 Shared Task on Morphological Reinflection: Generalization Across Languages
Tiago Pimentel, Maria Ryskina, Sabrina J. Mielke, Shijie Wu, Eleanor Chodroff, Brian Leonard, Garrett Nicolai, Yustinus Ghanggo Ate, Salam Khalifa, Nizar Habash, Charbel El-Khaissi, Omer Goldman, Michael Gasser, William Lane, Matt Coler, Arturo Oncevay, Jaime Rafael Montoya Samame, Gema Celeste Silva Villegas, Adam Ek, Jean-Philippe Bernardy, Andrey Shcherbakov, Aziyana Bayyr-ool, Karina Sheifer, Sofya Ganieva, Matvey Plugaryov, Elena Klyachko, Ali Salehi, Andrew Krizhanovsky, Natalia Krizhanovsky, Clara Vania, Sardana Ivanova, Aelita Salchak, Christopher Straughn, Zoey Liu, , Duygu Ataman, Witold Kieraś, Marcin Woliński, Totok Suhardijanto, Niklas Stoehr, Zahroh Nuriah, Shyam Ratan, Francis M. Tyers, Edoardo M. Ponti, Grant Aiton, Richard J. Hatcher, Emily Prudʼhommeaux, Ritesh Kumar, Mans Hulden, Botond Barta, Dorina Lakatos, Gábor Szolnok, Judit Ács, Mohit Raj, David Yarowsky, Ryan Cotterell, Ben Ambridge, and Ekaterina Vylomova
Proceedings of the 18th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, 229–259
Towards a morphological transducer and orthography converter for Western Tlacolula Valley Zapotec
, Felipe H. Lopez, and Brook Danielle Lillehaugen
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP), 185–193
Towards a morphological transducer and orthography converter for Western Tlacolula Valley Zapotec
, Felipe H. Lopez, and Brook Danielle Lillehaugen
First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP), Āltepētl Mēxihco, México (+online)
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2020
2019
Using a wiki in the teaching of Computational Linguistics
Textbook Alternatives: Open and Affordable Resources in the Classroom, Swarthmore College Library. Panelist
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Free/Open-Source technologies for Turkic languages developed in the Apertium project
, Ilnar Salimzianov, Francis M. Tyers, Memduh Gökırmak, Sardana Ivanova, and Oğuzhan Kuyrukçu
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Computer Processing of Turkic Languages (TurkLang 2019), 30–71
Free/Open-Source technologies for Turkic languages developed in the Apertium project
, Ilnar Salimzianov, Francis M. Tyers, Memduh Gökırmak, Sardana Ivanova, and Oğuzhan Kuyrukçu
The Seventh International Conference on Computer Processing of Turkic Languages (TurkLang 2019), Aqmescit/Simferopol, Republic of Crimea
A biscriptual morphological transducer for Crimean Tatar
Francis M. Tyers, , Darya Kavitskaya, Memduh Gökırmak, Nick Howell, and Remziye Berberova
ComputEL-3: 3rd Workshop on Computational Methods for Endangered Languages
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2018
Rule-based machine translation from Kazakh to Turkish
Sevilay Bayatli, Sefer Kurnaz, Ilnar Salimzyanov, , and Francis M. Tyers
The 21st Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2018), Alacant, Espanya
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Apertium's Web Toolchain for Low-Resource Language Technology
Sushain Cherivirala, Shardul Chiplunkar, , and Kevin Brubeck Unhammer
The 13th Conference of The Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT @ AMTA 2018), Boston, MA
Apertium's Web Toolchain for Low-Resource Language Technology
Sushain Cherivirala, Shardul Chiplunkar, , and Kevin Brubeck Unhammer
The 13th Conference of The Association for Machine Translation in the Americas Workshop Proceedings: Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT 2018), 53–62
A finite-State morphological analyzer for Wolaytta
Tewodros A. Gebreselassie, , and Michael Gasser
Information and Communication Technology for Development for Africa: Proceedings for the First International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Development for Africa (ICT4DA 2017), Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, September 25-27, 2017. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, 244, 14–23
2017
An assessment of Universal Dependency annotation guidelines for Turkic languages
Francis M. Tyers, , Çağrı Çöltekin, and Aibek Makazhanov
Fifth International Conference on Turkic Language Processing (TurkLang 2017), Qazan, Tatarstan
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A finite-State morphological analyzer for Wolaytta
Tewodros A. Gebreselassie, , and Michael Gasser
European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) International Conference on Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for Development for Africa, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
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Free/open-source text-processing technologies for Turkic languages
and Francis Tyers
Symposium on Turkic Languages and Linguistics, Seattle, WA
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Эркин/ачык булактуу тил технологиялары кыргыз жана тектеш тилдер үчүн (Free/Open-Source language technologies for Kyrgyz and beyond)
Open Educational Resources 2017 Summer Camp, Naryn, Kyrgyzstan
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2016
A Free/Open-Source Hybrid Morphological Disambiguation Tool for Kazakh
Zhenisbek Assylbekov, , Francis M. Tyers, Assulan Nurkas, Aida Sundetova, Aidana Karibayeva, Balzhan Abduali, and Dina Amirova
Proceedings of The First International Conference on Turkic Computational Linguistics (TurCLing 2016), 18–26
A free/open-source hybrid morphological disambiguation tool for Kazakh
Zhenisbek Assylbekov, , Francis Tyers, Assulan Nurkas, Aida Sundetova, Aidana Karibayeva, Balzhan Abduali, and Dina Amirova
The First International Conference on Turkic Computational Linguistics at the 17th Annual Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, Konya, Turkey
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A finite-state morphological analyser for Tuvan
Francis Tyers, , Aziyana Bayyr-ool, and Aelita Salchak
Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), Portorož, Slovenia
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2015–present
UD Annotatrix: An annotation tool for Universal Dependencies
Maria Sheyanova, Francis M. Tyers, , Jonathan Pan, Kevin Murphy, Alyaxey Yaskevich, Grzegorz Stark, Diogo S.C. Fernandes, and others
10–17. Public deployment at http://jonorthwash.github.io/ud-annotatrix
2015
Морфологический анализ (Morphological analysis)
UULangTech2015: Улан-Удэнский семинар по языковым технологиям / Ulan-Ude seminar on Language Technologies, Кафедра филологии Центральной Азии Восточного института Бурятского государственного университета
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Finite-state morphologies and text corpora as resources for improving morphological descriptions
Francis Tyers, Tommi Pirinen, and
Workshop on Computational Phonology and Morphology at the Linguistic Summer Institute, University of Chicago
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2014
Designing finite-state morphological transducers for Kypchak languages
, Ilnar Salimzyanov, and Francis M. Tyers
MorphologyFest: Symposium on Morphological Complexity, Bloomington, IN
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Finite-state morphological transducers for three Kypchak languages
, Ilnar Salimzyanov, and Francis M. Tyers
Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), Reykjavík, Iceland
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2013–present
2013
A free/open-source Kazakh-Tatar machine translation system
Ilnar Salimzyanov, , and Francis Morton Tyers
Machine Translation Summit XIV, Nice, France
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Challenges to designing morphological transducers for Turkic languages
20th annual ACES Central Eurasian Studies Conference, Bloomington, IN
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2012
Writing morphological transducers for Turkic languages using HFST
CLingDing, discussion group of the IU Computational Linguistics community, Indiana University
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A prototype machine translation system for Tatar and Bashkir based on free/open-source components
Francis Tyers, , Ilnar Salimzyanov, and Rustam Batalov
Eighth annual International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), İstanbul, Turkey
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A prototype machine translation system for Tatar and Bashkir based on free/open-source components
Tyers, Francis, , Ilnar Salimzyan, and Rustam Batalov
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Resources and Technologies for Turkic Languages at the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), İstanbul, Turkey, 11–14
The Apertium Machine Translation System
Francis Tyers and
TEL conference on computational and cognitive linguistics, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan, Qazan, Tatarstan
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Computational linguistics
2025
A new approach to calculating allophonic balance and functional load
Naomi Gurevich, Zhenisbek Assylbekov, Maxat Tezekbayev, Heejin Kim, and
The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2025), Philadelphia
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2017
Syllable-aware Neural Language Models: A Failure to Beat Character-aware Ones
Zhenisbek Assylbekov, Rustem Takhanov, Bagdat Myrzakhmetov, and
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Copenhagen, Denmark
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2016
Phylogenetic simulations over constraint-based grammar formalisms
Andrew Lamont and
Student Research Workshop at the 15th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, San Diego, California
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2015
Comparing Distance Metrics for Optimality Theoretic Grammars
Andrew Lamont and
Workshop on Computational Phonology and Morphology at the Linguistic Summer Institute, University of Chicago
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Socio-historical linguistics
2025
Central Asian Turkic and Khalkha Past Tense Systems Arose Through Balanced Contact
Joshua Sims, Zhiyu Mia Gong, and
Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic (Tu+10), University of Southern California
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2024
Gender and pronouns in three language families
Genders and Pronouns Across Languages, Swarthmore College
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Turkic Relative Clauses in Northern Tajik Persian: From Analytic to Synthetic Morphology
Afsheen Sharifzadeh, Hossep Dolatian, and
9th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic (Tu+9), Cornell University
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2023
2022
Mongolic loanwords in Kazakh and Kyrgyz
Joint Annual Meeting of the Mongolia Society and Annual Central Eurasian Studies Society Conference, Indiana University
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2017
The relation of some Yuan-era Turkic words to the Siberian Sibilant Shift
and Christopher P. Atwood
18th annual conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society, Seattle, WA
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Relating Yuan-era Turkic data to the Siberian Sibilant Shift
and Christopher P. Atwood
Swarthmore College Linguistics Research Roundtable
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2015
Turkic languages and models of language relatedness
Languages and Cultures of Asia graduate seminar, University of Wisconsin
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2012
How Much Contact can Change a Language? The Cases of Kyrgyz, Khalka, and Uyghur
, Niko Kontovas, and Andrew Shimunek
13th annual conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society, Bloomington, IN
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Language change in progress: the effect of language contact on the phoneme inventory of Central Eurasian languages
, Niko Kontovas, and Andrew Shimunek
19th annual ACES Central Eurasian Studies Conference, Indiana University
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2010
Understanding the history of Turkic-Turkic language contact in the Altay region
Fourth annual Linguistics Department Graduate Student Conference, Indiana University
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Turkic-Turkic language contact in the Altay and the linguistic origins of Kyrgyz
17th annual ACES Central Eurasian Studies Conference, Indiana University
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2008
Historical Interactions among Turkic Groups Inferred through Constraint-based Linguistic Typology
Ninth annual conference on the Central Eurasian Studies Society, Washington, D.C.
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Vowels
2026
2024
An X6-1 transducer clip for the UltraFit headset
Saumya Raj and
UltraFest XI: Ultrasound Imaging for Speech and Language Conference, 会津若松市, 日本国 (+online)
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2023
2021
The Phonetics and Phonology of Turkic Vowels and Vowel Harmony
University of Pennsylvania Phonetics Lab meeting
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2020
An ultrasound study of dorsal stops in Tatar and Qumuq
, Denis Tokmashev, Alsu Badrtdinova, Zarema Tarkovskaya, Mark Zimin, Vera Maltseva, Nikolay Urtegeshev, Tatiana Ryzhikova, Valeriya Lemskaya, and Anna Dybo
UltraFest IX: Ultrasound Imaging for Speech and Language Virtual Conference
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UltraTrace: A free/open-source cross-platform tool for manual annotation of ultrasound tongue imaging data
Kevin Murphy, Nathaniel Ziv Stern, Daniel Swanson, Caleb Ho, and
UltraFest IX: Ultrasound Imaging for Speech and Language Virtual Conference
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Undershoot in Kyrgyz short vowels is articulatory conditioned
Nathaniel Ziv Stern and
UltraFest IX: Ultrasound Imaging for Speech and Language Virtual Conference
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Current Turkic ultrasound tongue imaging findings from the Swarthmore Phonetics Lab
University of Delaware Phon Group. Distance presentation
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2019
The phonetic correlates of the Kyrgyz vowel length distinction
Nathaniel Ziv Stern and
Tu+4: 4th workshop on Turkic and languages in contact with Turkic, New York University
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An Investigation of the Articulatory Correlates of Vowel Anteriority in Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and Turkish using Ultrasound Tongue Imaging
Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC42) University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 25, 219–228
2018
An ultrasound study of the articulatory correlates of vowel anteriority in three Turkic languages
Tu+1: Proceedings of the first workshop on Turkish, Turkic and the languages of Turkey: November 21 - November 22, 2015, UMass Amherst, 161–178
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A phonetic study of the vowel system of Teleut
and Denis Tokmashev
19th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics (ICTL 19), Astana, Kazakhstan
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2017
Examining category differences in ultrasound tongue traces
Swarthmore College Academic Technology Stats Lunch
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2016
An investigation of the vowel anteriority contrast in three Turkic languages using ultrasound tongue imaging
Workshop on Turkish, Turkic and the languages of Turkey (Tu+2), Indiana University
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Modeling Turkic vowel systems articulatorily using ultrasound
23rd annual ACES Central Eurasian Studies Conference, Bloomington, IN
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2015
An ultrasound study of the articulatory correlates of vowel anteriority in three Turkic languages
Workshop on Turkish, Turkic and the languages of Turkey (Tu+1), UMass Amherst
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An Ultrasound Study of the Articulatory Correlates of Vowel Anteriority in Kazakh and Kyrgyz
20th Mid-Continental Phonetics Phonology Conference (MidPhon 20), Indiana University
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2014
Tongue Root Vowel Contrasts in Turkic and Mongolic languages
Central Eurasian Studies Brown Bag Series, Indiana University
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Syllable-edge phonology
2025
Only weak /n/asals in Kazakh maximize sonority falls
Andrew Lamont and
The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2025), Philadelphia
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2020
Stem Identity in Kazakh
Andrew Lamont and
The 94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2020)
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2019
2018
2016
An Acoustic Analysis of Vowel Insertion at Syllable Edges in Turkish
Hassan Bokhari, Mustafa Durmaz, and
Second Conference on Central Asian Languages and Linguistics (ConCALL-2), Indiana University
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2011
Phonological unfaithfulness of Turkic /n/ in initial position
12th annual conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society, Columbus, OH
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Accounting for consonantal nasal harmony in Kazakh
Fifth annual Linguistics Department Graduate Student Conference, Indiana University
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Morpheme-initial unfaithfulness after consonants in Turkic languages
18th annual ACES Central Eurasian Studies Conference, Indiana University
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2010
2009
Insights on Coda Cluster Phonology in Kazakh and Kyrgyz from a Split-Margin Approach
Tenth annual conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society, Toronto, Canada
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Evidence for the Sonority Scale in Kazakh
Third annual Linguistics Department Graduate Student Conference, Indiana University
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Complex codas in Kazakh and Kyrygz
16th annual ACES Central Eurasian Studies Conference, Indiana University
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2007
Theoretical linguistics meets Turkic languages: A unification of inter- and cross-linguistic patterns
19th annual Nicholas Poppe Symposium on Central/Inner Asian Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, University of Washington
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Language Documentation
2026
The Phonology of Turkish
and Nicholas Kontovas
International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
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2025
Space and Attention in the Kyrgyz Demonstrative System
Eszter Ótott-Kovács, Tolgonay Kubatova, Harrison Saunders, and
The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2025), Philadelphia
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2023
2022
2021
Kyrgyz Encodes Non-Confirmativity in its Past-Tense Paradigm
Martin Rakowszczyk, , and Tolgonay Kubatova
20th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics (ICTL20), Anadolu Üniversitesi, Eskişehir, Türkiye (online)
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2020
Зейнехан апайды қазақ тілі оқулықтарының шығуымен құттықтау / Congratulations to Zeynekhan apay on the publication of her Kazakh textbooks
Профессор Зейнехан Күзекованың қазақ тілі оқулықтары тұсаукесері / Presentation of Kazakh language textbooks by Professor Zeinekhan Kuzekova. Prerecorded presentation for event in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
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Why categorising Turkic non-finite verb forms correctly matters for NLP
and Francis M. Tyers
The Eighth International Conference on Computer Processing of Turkic Languages (TurkLang 2020), Öfö, Bashqortostan (+online)
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2019
Delineating Turkic non-finite verb forms by syntactic function
and Francis M. Tyers
Tu+4: 4th workshop on Turkic and languages in contact with Turkic, New York University
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2017
Towards a Systematic Functional Description of Turkic Nominal Morphosyntax
and Francis Tyers
Sixth regional conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society / Joint ESCAS/CESS Conference, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
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2014
Stress in Saudi Diaspora Uzbek and its relation to stress in Turkish
Hassan Bokhari and
First Conference on Central Asian Languages and Linguistics (ConCALL), Bloomington, IN
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2007
Phonetic and Phonological Problems in Kyrgyz: A Fulbrighter's plans for gathering data in the field
Indiana University Linguistics Department
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2006
A Novel Approach to Delineating Kazakh's Five Present Tenses: Lexical Aspect
Eightieth annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2006)
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2005
Aspect in the Present Tense in Kazakh: Auxiliaries and their Delineation
Sixth annual conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society, Boston, MA
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Indicating the Present Tense in Kazakh: By Auxiliary or Light Verb?
Third annual Harvard Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium
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An Investigation into Light Verbs in Kazakh (And Their Grammaticalization in the Present Tense)
Senior Honors Thesis
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