A running list of tools, databases, and experiments I’ve built or contributed to.

Semantics of Empire: Ottoman Turkish Translator

2024 · Retired

A neural machine translation model for Ottoman Turkish, built as part of my Symbolic Systems M.S. project at Stanford. The translator was trained to handle 18th–19th century Ottoman administrative and literary texts, a domain largely absent from existing NLP resources.

The project ran as a free public tool and was used by scholars and students across the Ottoman and Middle Eastern Studies fields before being retired due to API costs.

Read the blog post · View archived repo

Ottoman Text Corpus

Active

A digital collection of Ottoman court histories, political treatises, travel accounts, and diplomatic texts in transliteration from scholarly editions. The corpus spans 1166–1219 AH and is designed to support computational and close reading research on Ottoman history and culture.

mervetekgurler.com/ottoman_text_corpus_website