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A Myriad of Ways to Say: “Wear a mask!”

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Abstract

This paper presents a small corpus of notices displayed at entrances of various Belgrade public premises asking those who enter to wear a mask. We analyze the various aspects of these notices: their physical appearance, script, lexica, syntax and style.

A special attention is paid to various obligatory and optional parts of these notices. Obligatory parts deal with wearing masks, keeping the distance, limiting the number of persons on premises and using disinfection.

We developed local grammars for modelling phrases that require wearing masks, that can be used both for recognition and for generation of paraphrases.