TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints214
UR  - http://cogprints.org/214/
A1  - Bayraktar, Murat
A1  - Say, Bilge
A1  - Akman, Varol
Y1  - 1998///
N2  - 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.
KW  - punctuation
KW  -  structural punctuation marks
KW  -  comma
KW  -  the Penn Treebank
KW  -  the Wall Street Journal
KW  -  corpus linguistics.
TI  - An Analysis of English Punctuation: The Special Case of Comma
SP  - 33
AV  - public
EP  - 57
ER  -

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