1998-07-06Z2011-03-11T08:53:44Zhttp://cogprints.org/id/eprint/208This item is in the repository with the URL: http://cogprints.org/id/eprint/2081998-07-06ZInformation-Based Aspects of PunctuationWe offer a preliminary account of the information-based aspects of punctuation marks. We give our initial treatment within the Discourse Representation Theory and its segmented version. We hypothesize that this work will be useful in classifying the informational contributions of punctuation marks and bringing them to bear on the semantic characterization of written discourse.Bilge SayVarol Akman