title: An Information-Based Treatment of Punctuation in Discourse Representation Theory creator: Say, Bilge creator: Akman, Varol subject: Computational Linguistics subject: Pragmatics subject: Semantics subject: Syntax description: Punctuation has so far attracted attention within the linguistics community mostly from a syntactic perspective. In this paper, we give a preliminary account of the information-based aspects of punctuation, drawing our points from assorted, 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. publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia contributor: Martin-Vide, Carlos date: 1998 type: Book Chapter type: NonPeerReviewed format: application/postscript identifier: http://cogprints.org/216/2/punc.ps identifier: Say, Bilge and Akman, Varol (1998) An Information-Based Treatment of Punctuation in Discourse Representation Theory. [Book Chapter] relation: http://cogprints.org/216/