The use of punctuation patterns in machine translation

SINCE A MACHINE can easily recognize punctuation marks, it is pertinent to inquire how the pattern of punctuation marks within a sentence can be used to determine sentence structure. Such a study may result in the development of criteria which can be incorporated in a program for machine translation. While the present study deals with the analysis of English language punctuation patterns, a similar analysis can of course be made for the punctuation of any other language.