Text decoding/analysis

We need to comment on the shift in emphasis in text analysis between older systems, which concentrated on syntactic, morphological and phonological analysis and paid little attention to text-decoding issues, and modem systems, which perform little linguistic analysis but devote considerable attention to ambiguous text forms. The are three separate factors influencing this shift. Firstly, with the commerciahsation of TTS, we have found... 

Text analysis a decoding process that finds the message from the text... 

Finally, Chapter 6 describes how to predict prosody information from an often impoverished text input. In many ways, this subject shares similarities with text analysis. There is an important difference however in that while we can view text analysis as a decoding problem with a clear right and wrong, prosody prediction has no strict right and wrong as we are attempting to determining prosody from an underspecified input. 

Rgure 5.3 The flow of an entire text-analysis system (only four semiotic decoders/translators are shown for snccinctness). 

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