Unlocking history: AI project turns Ottoman archives into modern Turkish

Ottoman Turkish was a language written using a Turkish form of the Arabic script between the 13th and 20th centuries, containing a great deal of Arabic and Persian expressions. / Photo: AA Archive

Osmanlica.com, an initiative started as a doctoral thesis project by Dr Ishak Dolek under the supervision of Associate Professor Dr Atakan Kurt from Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa Computer Engineering Department, has achieved 96 percent success in the Ottoman Optical Character Recognition process, which can be considered as the first step in the transfer of Ottoman sources into Modern Turkish language.

Kurt says that what the European Union has done for their historical manuscripts, written since the Middle Ages, is to use these computer programmes to translate them into editable text. “In other words, the language used at that time is like a foreign language now. That is why we also have to translate the language of the documents into modern Turkish.”

In order to achieve this, Atakan Kurt and his partner Ishak Dolek have established a company, called Mina Arge, and developed the OCR project as the first step. Adile Ozgunay, one of the historians employed as an expert on the project, said she has been working on Ottoman Turkish for about 11 years. “I had the chance to closely observe how much effort and time the field needs. For the past two years, we've been pouring our efforts and faith into this project.”

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