Providing linguists with better tools: Daniel Hirst's contribution to prosodic annotation

Céline de Looze (1) , Na Zhi , Cyril Auran (2) , Hyong-Sil Cho , Sophie Herment (3) , Irina Nesterenko (4)

1 Trinity College Dublin
2 STL - Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163
3 LPL - Laboratoire Parole et Langage
4 Inalco - Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales

Among Daniel Hirst's contributions to speech prosody, this article addresses those concerned with the development of automatic tools for prosodic annotation. One of Daniel's concerns has been to facilitate the task of phoneticians and linguists involved in developing efficient rules for the analysis and synthesis of speech prosody. This presentation describes some of his innovative and fruitful contributions for the analysis of the prosody of natural languages.

Keywords: prosodic annotation; tools; form~function; analysis by synthesis; MOMEL-INTSINT; IF; ProZed

Domains: Linguistics

Céline de Looze, Na Zhi, Cyril Auran, Hyong-Sil Cho, Sophie Herment, et al.. Providing linguists with better tools: Daniel Hirst's contribution to prosodic annotation. Speech Prosody 6, May 2012, Shanghai, China. pp.615-620. ⟨hal-01510454⟩