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abstract: We offer 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.
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conference: ACL/SIGPARSE International Meeting on Punctuation in Computational Linguistics
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  - family: Say
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date: 1996
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keywords: 'punctuation, DRT (discourse representation theory), SDRT (segmented discourse representation theory), RST (rhetorical structure theory), information, discouse.'
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publisher: 'Human Communication Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK'
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title: Information-Based Aspects of Punctuation
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