emre şahin's digital garden 🍃 - nlp https://emresahin.net/tags/nlp/ Posts in the nlp tag en contact@emresahin.net (Emre Şahin) Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:46:32 +0000 devlog 2023-06-12T15:04:19+00:00 2023-06-12T15:04:19+00:00 Emre Şahin Mon, 12 Jun 2023 15:04:19 +0000 https://emresahin.net/devlog/ https://emresahin.net/devlog/ I’ve read a few interesting ideas here . Identifying whether an uploaded document is a template could be a useful feature. This is a basic classification task. We can also find ways to extract named entities from the documents and remove them to create a template. Then, we can ask the user to pro... devlog Software Development legalops contract negotiation nlp document-analysis templates
  • I’ve read a few interesting ideas here.
  • Identifying whether an uploaded document is a template could be a useful feature.
    • This is a basic classification task. We can also find ways to extract named entities from the documents and remove them to create a template. Then, we can ask the user to provide values for these entities to generate a complete document.
    • ]]>         Converting Latin-based Turkish spelling to Ottoman 2012-09-23T14:00:00+00:00 2012-09-23T14:00:00+00:00 Emre Şahin Sun, 23 Sep 2012 14:00:00 +0000 https://emresahin.net/12124-4-2782/ https://emresahin.net/12124-4-2782/ I’m working on a system to search Ottoman document collections. In order to query a large collection in Ottoman, the user needs to write the query in Ottoman, which uses an Arabic-based alphabet with a completely different set of spelling rules. This limits usability, since most users will not be... Dervaze search conversion query transcription Ottoman Turkish NLP I’m working on a system to search Ottoman document collections.

    In order to query a large collection in Ottoman, the user needs to write the query in Ottoman, which uses an Arabic-based alphabet with a completely different set of spelling rules. This limits usability, since most users will not be familiar with the spelling. Experts are, but we can’t assume all users will be able to use it.

    There are various methods of transcribing Ottoman to modern Turkish. Many of these use diacritics to denote different long vowels. When it comes to consonants that are spelled identically in Turkish but correspond to different letters in Ottoman, most of these transcription systems are silent. They don’t represent the difference between the letters tha and sin for example, although the first is used in Arabic words considerably. Turks pronounce these two letters identically since Ottoman times, so they are written identically as s in Turkish.

    The information content of these two writing systems is different. One has three s letters, the other has a rich set of vowels etc. The Latin-based Turkish script looks more verbose, so I decided to reduce this verbosity to get a set of probable Ottoman spellings.

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