%A Bilge Say
%A Varol Akman
%J Mathematical and Computational Analysis of Natural Language
%T An Information-Based Treatment of Punctuation in Discourse Representation Theory
%X Punctuation has so far attracted attention within the linguistics community mostly from a syntactic perspective. In this paper, we give a preliminary account of the information-based aspects of punctuation, drawing our points from assorted, naturally occurring sentences. We present our formal models of these sentences and the semantic contributions of punctuation marks. Our formalism is a simplified analogue of an extension--due to Nicholas Asher--of Discourse Representation Theory.
%K punctuation, information, (Segmented) Discourse Representation Theory, discourse relations.
%P 359-373
%E Carlos Martin-Vide
%D 1998
%I John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia
%L cogprints216