Awesome Kyrgyz NLP

A curated list of awesome Kyrgyz language processing software, models and datasets. Inspired by awesome-ML.

The main focus is on open source tools, downloadable data and research papers with code.

If you want to contribute to this list (please do), send me a pull request. Also, a listed repository should be tagged as deprecated if:

• Repository's owners explicitly say that "this library is not maintained".
• Not committed to for a long time (2~3 years).

Table of Contents

• Awesome Kyrgyz NLP
  • Table of Contents
  • Datasets
  • Pretrained models
  • Methods/Software
    • Morphology
  • Online Demos
  • Miscellaneous

Datasets

Corpora

• Manas-UdS: 1.2M words, 84 literary texts, 5 genres: novel, novelette, epic, minor epic, and fairy tale; lemmata, PoS tags, rich per-text metadata.
• kyWaC: Kyrgyz corpus from the web, 19M words, Jan 2012 [not open]
• Kyrgyz in Leipzig Corpora Collecion: Community data / Newscrawl (1M sentences) / Wikipedia (300K sentences)
• TilCorpusu: Kyrgyz corpus, 100M words, news+fiction, made public in July 2023 (just the News part due to legal restrictions)
• TurkLang-7: parallel corpora mentioned in the 2020 work 'First Results of the ``TurkLang-7'' Project: Creating Russian-Turkic Parallel Corpora and MT Systems' by Khusainov, A., Suleymanov, D., Gilmullin, R., Minsafina, A., Kubedinova, L., Abdurakhmonova, N. [status?]

Character recognition

• Kyrgyz language hand-written letters (Kyrgyz MNIST): hand-written Kyrgyz alphabet letters collection for machine learning applications; original images (a total of 80213) have been transformed to 50x50 images, then to CSV format

Raw text

• kloop corpus: 16'826 articles (sqlite3 DB file) + crawler code

Morphology & Syntax

• UD project comments on difficulties in Turkish language processing, might bring light to the question why parsing Kyrgyz is hard as well
• KTMU's UD Treebank, 781 sentences; UPD: now even more sentences! + some fixes in the previous version of the dataset
• Small UD Treebank: 145 sentences (incl. 20 Cairo sentences), and ~ 100 sentences suggested by UD Turkic Group; a part of UD Turkic Treebank; also note that the translations to English, Azerbaijani and Turkish are available
• Verbal paradigms for Kyrgyz (100 Kyrgyz verbs fully conjugated in all tenses) by Aytnatova Alima, annotation for Unimorph by E. Chodroff

Named Entity Recognition

• WikiANN has a Kyrgyz language part
• KyrgyzNER: [not published yet]

Text Classification

• Kyrgyz Multi-Label News Classification: [not published yet]

Word Similarity Data

• Kyrgyz Word Embedding Evaluation: [not published yet]; the 2 best models have been released

Instructions

• Machine-Translated Alpaca: Stanford Alpaca instructions translated into Kyrgyz using ChatGPT and Google Translate

Machine-readable dictionaries

• Country names table: Kyrgyz-Russian-English
• Thesaurus KyrSpell (however, unpacking it seems to break the license)
• Tatu Ylonen's enwiktionary-based dictionary (also please see the derived En-Ky Anki deck for language learners)

Pretrained models

• Polyglot morfessor — pretrained morfessor model, number 6
• fastText — 300-dimensional fastText vectors provided by the authors: bin, txt.
• compressed fastText — fasttext-ky-mini prepared by Liebl Bernhard in 2021.
• fastText trained on Leipzig Corpora — best-performant 100/300-dimensional fastText vectors provided by the authors of the HJ-Ky-0.1 paper.
• fastText from Kuriyozov et al.'2020 — trained on SketchEngine's KyWaC
• BERT-based NER — bert-base-multilingual-cased fine-tuned on Wikiann for NER on Kyrgyz. The author warns that this model is not usable and is built just as a proof of concept. Will be updated later.
• Manas-GPT — Janar Osmonaliev's fun personal project: training nanoGPT on Sayakbai Karalaev's version of Epic of Manas

Methods/Software

• spaCy basic support: tokenization, stopwords, like_num
• stanza-ky pipeline called 'ktmu'; use with care, seems to have a very suspicious brackets processing
• kyrgyz-nlp/disambiguator project studies the ability of popular embedding models to select word senses based on the word hints (anchor words)

Morphology

• Kyrgyz for Apertium: morphological analysis and generation, PoS-tagging; installation script: install_apertium_kir.sh. A much, much easier way: import apertium; apertium.installer.install_module("kir").
• [DEPRECATED] kymopl: Kyrgyz morphology in Prolog

Hate Speech detection

• Jupyter Notebook for hate speech detection

Other

• Tilchi electronic Russian-Kyrgyz dictionary, open source desktop application
• ӨҮҢизатор: a proof-of-concept letter replacement Telegram bot demo code, fixes incorrect usages of 'О','У', 'Н' => 'Ө', 'Ү','Ң'
• Number-to-words conversion (JavaScript) by @AzamatSooldaev
• Number-to-words conversion (TypeScript) by @timursaurus
• Telegram bot for Kyrgyz morphological analysis by @sasha-kir based on Apertium data for Kyrgyz

Online Demos

• Cyrillic-to-Latin online converter based on this resource.

Miscellaneous

• Kyrgyz NLP bibliography: kyrgyznlp.github.io
• Turkic Interlingua community and SIGTURK (ACL Turkic languages special interest group)
• A useful Apertium's list of tools and other resources
• Online dictionaries and other useful resources on el-sozduk.kg
• Turkic languages-related resources compiled by Dr. Gülşen Eryiğit and her team at Istanbul Technical University
• Data prepared by CSLT: 128h speech, 163 speakers (100m/63f), transcription of the speech audio, lexicon in the word level; link (requires extra steps, quote: You should ask for license before you can download the datasets. Please send Email to shiying@cslt.org or lilt@cslt.org to get the license.)

Contributions to this list

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