An analysis of English punctuation: the special case of comma

Murat Bayraktar ^[1] ; Bilge Say ^[1] ; Varol Akman ^[1]
1. [1] Bilkent University
  
  Bilkent University
  
  Turquía
Localización: International journal of corpus linguistics, ISSN-e 1569-9811, ISSN 1384-6655, Vol. 3, Nº 1, 1998, págs. 33-57
Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
- 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 the individual words.