19 Feb Meeting

• Participants:
  • Furkan Akkurt (Turkish)
  • Bermet Chontaeva (Kyrgyz)
  • Soudabeh Eslami (Azerbaijani)
  • Omer Goldman
  • Gulnura Jumalieva (Kyrgyz)
  • Aida Kasieva (Kyrgyz)
  • Jonathan Washington (Kyrgyz)
• Date: 19/2/2024 17:00 (UTC+3)
• Place: Zoom
  • Link: zoom.us/j/94784185477
  • Meeting ID: 947 8418 5477
  • Passcode: 985109

Agenda

• Full paper for the workshop MWE-UD 2024 in LREC-COLING 2024
  • Submission due Mar 3 (extended 🎉)
  • Paper edit access link

Discussion

• Members are glad that Nikolett is joining the group.
• We can use the 7th sentence as an example in the paper, link.
  • In Tatar and Kyrgyz, we can have different possessors for the 2 stems.
  • One example of discussion: "kitaplığındakilerim" (my ones in his bookshelf)
• Discussed further, Turkish examples:
  • "Bardak dolabındakilerim düştüler."
  • "Benimkininkiler", may be a response to a question "whose parents are coming?"
  • "Dağların arkasındakilerdeki elmalar."
  • "Türki dil ailesindekilerdeki -ki eki."
  • and lots of Kyrgyz examples were discussed.
  • Turkish example Jonathan found on Wikipedia: "Hinduizmdeki kozmoloji, Upanişadlardaki gelişiminden sonra da gelişmeye devam etmişse de bu gelişim Upanişadlardakindeki gibi Vedik temelleri terk etmez."
    • Regex used: bzgrep --color -E '[td][ae]ki[^ ]+deki' tur.wpdump.20200601.txt.bz2
• Jonathan mentioned the GitHub issue he'd created.
• Paper sections
  • Introduction
  • Section 2: -ki issue
    • 1 subsection per approach from a single example sentence
    • Büşra working on "splitting before -ki" would be good.
    • Jonathan commits to working on this section.
  • Conclusion
• Talked about 'şuyum', example: "Benim şuyum var, benim buyum var diye kibir ve gurur yapmayın."

Actions

• Meet next Saturday at 19:00 (UTC+3),
• Add graphs for 'Bardak dolabındakilerim düştüler.' in the paper.