29.4824, Qs: Programming Tools for Assessing Punctuation Patterns

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-4824. Tue Dec 04 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.4824, Qs: Programming Tools for Assessing Punctuation Patterns

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Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 18:58:56
From: Amy Johnson [amyj at mit.edu]
Subject: Programming Tools for Assessing Punctuation Patterns

 
Hi all,

I'm looking for tools to help me assess the degree of spelling and punctuation
standardization in a corpus of emails. More specifically, I'm interested in
extended punctuation (!!!!!!!!) and extended letters (whyyyyyyyyy) as
affect/register signifiers, lack of terminal punctuation, etc. I can use
regular expressions to target individual types, but it'd be great to use
something more comprehensive. It would be wonderful, for example, to measure a
text's choices against, say, the rules of the Chicago Manual of Style.
Anything in between would also be helpful!

Any suggestions?

Many thanks,
Amy

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Amy Johnson, PhD
Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Amherst College
 

Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)



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