[HN Gopher] A History of Punctuation
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       A History of Punctuation
        
       Author : drdee
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2022-05-23 15:25 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | jll29 wrote:
       | Not to forget the middle dot that was often used to separate
       | words in Latin inscriptions.
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       | Linguists like Geoffrey Nunberg and Ted Briscoe have written
       | about the linguistics of punctuation and its role in automatic
       | syntactic processing of text ("Parsing (with) Punctuation").
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       | For Mandarin, detecting the word boundaries in the absence of
       | white space between word-indicating characters or character
       | sequences has been a dedicated sub-task of NLP pre-processing,
       | often applying machine learning in the process:
       | https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Chinese-Word-Boundarie...
        
       | solarmist wrote:
       | I learned about the history of the space (between words)
       | recently. It is such an integral thing nowadays, but it was not
       | obvious before it existed.
        
         | layer8 wrote:
         | It's still absent in east-asian script.
        
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