Clifton, Rita; Simmons, John (2005) O Mundo das Marcas, Lisboa: Actual Editora.

Paper Template for INTERSPEECH 2005 – Eurospeech, Lisboa

Annotated speech corpora are indispensable to various areas of speech research. In this paper, we present a novel discriminative training approach for HMM-based automatic phonetic segmentation. The objective of the proposed minimum boundary error (MBE) discriminative training approach is to minimize the expected boundary errors over a set of phonetic alignments represented as a phonetic lattice...

John Newport 1951–2005

The news is so full of lives cut short that one might worry that we have become inured to the experience. But cold reality asserts itself when a premature death strikes within our own community, and the full tragedy and the wasted opportunity are exposed. We then pause to mark the singularity of human existence and the personal nature of science itself. John Newport, distinguished professor of ...

Sir John and Lady Rita Cornforth: a distinguished chemical partnership.

This review describes the life of Sir John Cornforth AC CBE FRS, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1975. It covers his early life in Australia, his work in Oxford, the National Institute for Medical Research, the Milstead Laboratory of Chemical Enzymology and the University of Sussex, together with the contributions made by his wife, Lady Rita Cornforth.

Eco-branding. A revolution in the new media age

Resumo: O mundo está a mudar a uma grande velocidade, ao mesmo tempo que os recentes média chegam às casas dos consumidores e das empresas. As novas marcas estão a ocupar o lugar de outras marcas mais importantes, visto que as suas antecessoras eram grandes demais para gerir. As mais novas são atraentes, inteligentes e funcionam melhor. Esta é a era das marcas Web 2.0. O que agora o consumidor ...

In memory of Professor John R. Cameron (1922-2005)