Dependency Annotation of Ottoman Turkish with Multilingual BERT

\c{S}aziye Bet\"ul \"Ozate\c{s}, Tar{\i}k T{\i}ra\c{s}, Efe Gen\c{c}, and Esma Bilgin Ta\c{s}demir. 2024. Dependency Annotation of Ottoman Turkish with Multilingual BERT. LAW-XVIII, pages 188-196, St. Julians, Malta This study introduces a pretrained large language model-based annotation methodology for the first de dency treebank in Ottoman Turkish. Our experimental results show that, iteratively, i) pseudo-annotating data using a multilingual BERT-based parsing model, ii) manually correcting the pseudo-annotations, and iii) fine-tuning the parsing model with the corrected annotations, we speed up and simplify the challenging dependency annotation process. The resulting treebank, that will be a part of the Universal Dependencies (UD) project, will facilitate automated analysis of Ottoman Turkish documents, unlocking the linguistic richness embedded in this historical heritage.