?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=An+Information-Based+Treatment+of+Punctuation+in+Discourse+Representation+Theory&rft.creator=Say%2C+Bilge&rft.creator=Akman%2C+Varol&rft.subject=Computational+Linguistics&rft.subject=Pragmatics&rft.subject=Semantics&rft.subject=Syntax&rft.description=Punctuation+has+so+far+attracted+attention+within+the+linguistics+community+mostly+from+a+syntactic+perspective.+In+this+paper%2C+we+give+a+preliminary+account+of+the+information-based+aspects+of+punctuation%2C+drawing+our+points+from+assorted%2C+naturally+occurring+sentences.+We+present+our+formal+models+of+these+sentences+and+the+semantic+contributions+of+punctuation+marks.+Our+formalism+is+a+simplified+analogue+of+an+extension--due+to+Nicholas+Asher--of+Discourse+Representation+Theory.&rft.publisher=John+Benjamins+Publishing+Company%2C+Amsterdam%2FPhiladelphia&rft.contributor=Martin-Vide%2C+Carlos&rft.date=1998&rft.type=Book+Chapter&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpostscript&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F216%2F2%2Fpunc.ps&rft.identifier=++Say%2C+Bilge+and+Akman%2C+Varol++(1998)+An+Information-Based+Treatment+of+Punctuation+in+Discourse+Representation+Theory.++%5BBook+Chapter%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F216%2F