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abstract: '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.'
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date: 1998
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keywords: 'punctuation, information, (Segmented) Discourse Representation Theory, discourse relations.'
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publication: Mathematical and Computational Analysis of Natural Language
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title: An Information-Based Treatment of Punctuation in Discourse Representation Theory
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