%A Murat Bayraktar
%A Bilge Say
%A Varol Akman
%J International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
%T An Analysis of English Punctuation: The Special Case of Comma
%X 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 individual words.
%N 1
%K punctuation, structural punctuation marks, comma, the Penn Treebank, the Wall Street Journal, corpus linguistics.
%P 33-57
%V 3
%D 1998
%L cogprints214

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