NOTES UPON GRAPTAS COMMA AND INTERROGATIONIS

American Resorts, with Notes upon Their Climate

Comma checking in Danish

This paper describes research in using the Brill tagger (Brill 94,95) to learn to identify incorrect commas in Danish. Trained on a part-of-speech tagged corpus of 600,000 words, the system identifies incorrect commas with a precision of 91% and a recall of 77%. The system was developed by randomly inserting commas in a text, which were tagged as incorrect, while the original commas were tagged...

COMPLETING COMMA-FREE CODES by

We prove that for every regular comma-free code there exists a maximal comma-free code containing it which is still regular and, moreover, we can effectively locate such a completion. In particular, we can decide whether a given regular comma-free code is maximal.

Restrictions and Generalizations on Comma-Free Codes

A significant sector of coding theory is that of comma-free coding; that is, codes which can be received without the need of a letter used for word separation. The major difficulty is in finding bounds on the maximum number of comma-free words which can inhabit a dictionary. We introduce a new class called a self-reflective comma-free dictionary and prove a series of bounds on the size of such ...

Persistence of Memory and the Comma Bacillus

“T anyone should condescend to die of cholera at the bidding of so insignifi cant a creature as the comma bacillus,” wrote Marcel Proust, should not be astonishing to those in the know. Plagued by illness from childhood, the author was very much in tune with medicine, which he pondered often in Remembrance of Things Past (1913), his monumental novel on the nature of memory. He also knew about c...