?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=An+Analysis+of+English+Punctuation%3A+The+Special+Case+of+Comma&rft.creator=Bayraktar%2C+Murat&rft.creator=Say%2C+Bilge&rft.creator=Akman%2C+Varol&rft.subject=Computational+Linguistics&rft.subject=Syntax&rft.description=Punctuation+has+usually+been+ignored+by+researchers+in+computational+linguistics+over+the+years.+Recently%2C+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+%60%60structural''+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+individual+words.&rft.date=1998&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpostscript&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F214%2F2%2Fijcl.ps&rft.identifier=++Bayraktar%2C+Murat+and+Say%2C+Bilge+and+Akman%2C+Varol++(1998)+An+Analysis+of+English+Punctuation%3A+The+Special+Case+of+Comma.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F214%2F