title: An Analysis of English Punctuation: The Special Case of Comma creator: Bayraktar, Murat creator: Say, Bilge creator: Akman, Varol subject: Computational Linguistics subject: Syntax description: Punctuation has usually been ignored by researchers in computational linguistics over the years. Recently, it has been realized that a true understanding of written language will be impossible if punctuation marks are not taken into account. This paper contains the details of a computer-aided exercise to investigate English punctuation practice for the special case of comma (the most significant punctuation mark) in a parsed corpus. The study classifies the various ``structural'' uses of the comma according to the syntax-patterns in which a comma occurs. The corpus (Penn Treebank) consists of syntactically annotated sentences with no part-of-speech tag information about individual words. date: 1998 type: Journal (Paginated) type: PeerReviewed format: application/postscript identifier: http://cogprints.org/214/2/ijcl.ps identifier: Bayraktar, Murat and Say, Bilge and Akman, Varol (1998) An Analysis of English Punctuation: The Special Case of Comma. [Journal (Paginated)] relation: http://cogprints.org/214/