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