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abstract: 'We take em-dash as our sample punctuation mark and examine its usage from a discourse perspective, using sentences from well-known corpora. We particularly comment on how dashes can give hints on information structure, focus, and anaphora. Throughout the paper Discourse Representation Theory is used as a framework.'
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conference: "ITALLC '98: Third Conference on Information-Theoretic Approaches to Logic, Language, and Computation"
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date: 1998
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keywords: 'punctuation, DRT (discourse representation theory), SDRT (structured discourse representation theory), discourse, information structure.'
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title: Dashes as Typographical Cues for the Information Structure
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