Towards testing the syntax of punctuation
ACL '96 Proceedings of the 34th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Towards a syntactic account of punctuation
COLING '96 Proceedings of the 16th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
Application of TPB to punctuation usage in instant messaging
Behaviour & Information Technology
Segmentation Charts for Czech --- Relations among Segments in Complex Sentences
LATA '09 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications
Annotation of sentence structure: capturing the relationship among clauses in Czech sentences
ACL-IJCNLP '09 Proceedings of the Third Linguistic Annotation Workshop
Punctuation: making a point in unsupervised dependency parsing
CoNLL '11 Proceedings of the Fifteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
Segmentation of complex sentences
TSD'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue
Annotation of sentence structure
Language Resources and Evaluation
Correcting comma errors in learner essays, and restoring commas in newswire text
NAACL HLT '12 Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
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Few, if any, current NLP systems make any significant use of punctuation. Intuitively, a treatment of punctuation seems necessary to the analysis and production of text. Whilst this has been suggested in the fields of discourse structure, it is still unclear whether punctuation can help in the syntactic field. This investigation attempts to answer this question by parsing some corpus-based material with two similar grammars --- one including rules for punctuation, the other ignoring it. The punctuated grammar significantly out-performs the unpunctuated one, and so the conclusion is that punctuation can play a useful role in syntactic processing.