Re: [Corpora-List] Encoding of apostrophes and quotes

From: Eric Atwell (eric@comp.leeds.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Jun 30 2006 - 09:48:56 MET DST

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    I think it is quite reasonable for UNICODE standards to give apostrophe
    and single-quote a single encoding, if in practice many people cant
    understand the difference and use either character interchangeably.
    I see this as analogous to a word whcih can have more than one function,
    e.g. "to" can function as preposition or infinitival marker,
    or "one" has four possible tags in the ICE/TOSCA part-of-speech tagset
    corresponding to four separable functions.

    Eric Atwell

    Senior Lecturer, Language research group, School of Computing,
    Faculty of Engineering, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT, England
    TEL: +44-113-3435430 FAX: +44-113-3435468 http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/eric

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