TY - GEN ID - cogprints208 UR - http://cogprints.org/208/ A1 - Say, Bilge A1 - Akman, Varol Y1 - 1996/// N2 - We 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. PB - Human Communication Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK KW - punctuation KW - DRT (discourse representation theory) KW - SDRT (segmented discourse representation theory) KW - RST (rhetorical structure theory) KW - information KW - discouse. TI - Information-Based Aspects of Punctuation SP - 49 AV - public EP - 56 ER -