Richard asked for 40-50 words on UCL's activities for the ICSLP abstract.
Here are a few words for people to hack about (Mark and Alex please read
carefully). Richard has already mentioned the database.
Do you want it to say "At UCL we have done x...", or do we just attribute
everything to ProSynth, as Richard's current version does?
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Our control structure takes the form of a linguistically informed,
head-driven prosodic hierarchy, implemented in XML. Database text material
is given a detailed syntactic parse, supplemented by a parse into the
prosodic and sub-syllabic constituents of the hierarchy, with links to the
syntactic tree. The lexicon itself is in the form of a partially parsed
representation.
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I'll draft that letter to Nigel B tomorrow, promise.
Jill