15. The method of claim 14 wherein said abridged version of said datum is generated via syntactic processing.
15. The method of claim 14 wherein said abridged version of said datum is generated via syntactic processing. 16. The method of claim 15 wherein said text string is part of a Voice Extensible Markup Language document, and wherein said syntactic processing is based on a grammar that is specified by a uniform resource identifier in said Voice Extensible Markup Language document.