creators_name: Bayraktar, Murat
creators_name: Say, Bilge
creators_name: Akman, Varol
type: journalp
datestamp: 1998-11-10
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:44
metadata_visibility: show
title: An Analysis of English Punctuation: The Special Case of Comma
ispublished: pub
subjects: ling-comput
subjects: ling-syntax
full_text_status: public
keywords: punctuation, structural punctuation marks, comma, the Penn Treebank, the Wall Street Journal, corpus linguistics.
abstract: 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
date_type: published
publication: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
volume: 3
number: 1
pagerange: 33-57
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Bayraktar, Murat and Say, Bilge and Akman, Varol  (1998) An Analysis of English Punctuation: The Special Case of Comma.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/214/2/ijcl.ps