Until some years ago, researchers in computational linguistics have ignored punctuation. Nevertheless, since the publication of Nunberg’s monograph [Numberg G., 1990], punctuation works have increased [Bayraktar M. et al., 1998] [Hardt D., 2001] [Pala K. et al., 2003], and, recently, it is used more and more for different tasks of Natural Language Processing. Our research group has been working...

We ooer a preliminary account of the information-based aspects of punctuation marks. We give our initial treatment within the Discourse Representation Theory and its segmented version. We hypothesize that this work will be useful in classifying the informational contributions of punctuation marks and bringing them to bear on the semantic characterization of written discourse.

From a grammar point of view, the role of punctuation marks in a sentence is formally defined and well understood. In semantic analysis punctuation plays also a crucial role as a method of avoiding ambiguity of the meaning. A different situation can be observed in the statistical analyses of language samples, where the decision on whether the punctuation marks should be considered or should be ...

Punctuation marks have recently attracted attention within the linguistics community mostly from a syntactic perspective. In this paper, we aim to give a preliminary account of information-based aspects of punctuation marks, drawing our points from examples and links with related phenomena such as intonation. We give our initial treatment within the Discourse Representation Theory.

Abstract This article proposes a typology of punctuation devices based on functional criteria. It argues that broad concept – including not only non-“alphanumeric” marks but also layout and spacing as well script features is needed to do justice the diversity material manuscripts their changes over time.