This is the proceedings of the workshop on Punctuation in Computational Linguistics, held at the ACL Conference in June 1996 at Santa Cruz. It contains the following papers:

• Introduction Bernard Jones
• The Syntax and Semantics of Punctuation and its Use in Interpretation Ted Briscoe
• Punctuation in Quoted Speech Christine Doran
• Layout and Language: Lists and Tables in Technical Documents Shona Douglas and Matthew Hurst
• Punctuation in the Bravice English-to-Japanese Machine Translation System Jan Fornell
• The Role of Punctuation in Disambiguation of Coordinate Compounds Young-Gie Min
• Semantic and Layout Properties of Text Punctuation Elsa Pascual and Jacques Virbel
• Information-Based Aspects of Punctuation Bilge Say and Varol Akman
• A Divide-and-Conquer Strategy for Parsing Peh Li Shiuan and Christopher Ting Hian Ann
• Considerations on Parsing a Poorly Punctuated Text in French Marthe Simard