Morpheus: Neural Tokenizer and Embedder for Turkish
Morpheus is a morphology-aware neural tokenizer and word embedder for Turkish that preserves original text through lossless encoding and decoding. It achieves the lowest bits-per-character (1.425), improves morphological alignment (MorphScore macro-F1 0.61), and uses 19% less GPU memory than 64K-vocabulary subword tokenizers. Frozen Morpheus embeddings outperform BGE-M3 and BERTurk in lexical retrieval, with root-family MAP of 0.85 and ROC-AUC of 1.00.