PUNCT: punctuation
Definition
Punctuation marks are non-alphabetical characters and character groups used in many languages to delimit linguistic units in printed text.
Punctuation is not taken to include logograms such as $, %, and
§, which are instead tagged as SYM. (Hint: if it corresponds
to a word that you pronounce, such as dollar or percent,
it is SYM and not PUNCT.)
Spoken corpora contain symbols representing pauses, laughter and other sounds; we treat them as punctuation, too. In these cases it is even not required that all characters of the token are non-alphabetical. One can represent a pause using a special character such as #, or using some more descriptive coding such as [:pause].
Examples
- Period: .
- Comma: ,
- Parentheses: ()
- Bullets in itemized lists: •, ‣
References
PUNCT in other languages: [bej] [bg] [ca] [cs] [cy] [da] [el] [en] [es] [et] [fi] [fr] [ga] [grc] [hy] [hyw] [it] [ja] [ka] [kk] [kpv] [ky] [myv] [no] [pt] [ru] [sl] [sv] [tr] [tt] [uk] [u] [urj] [xcl] [yue] [zh]