Título da página eletrónica: The Past is Unwritten

Boletim da FEQ Página

O leitor tem em suas mãos o segundo número do Boletim da FEQ, contendo os resumos dos artigos publicados em revistas indexadas nos meses de janeiro a maio de 2007. O crescimento é bastante significativo, de 16 trabalhos no primeiro número para 38 neste, mesmo considerando o período de tempo maior. São apresentadas também as teses e dissertações defendidas entre março e maio. Por ultimo, na seçã...

Rumo ao Título de Doutor/Mestre

A significant portion of new students begins a graduate course in Computer Science without a clear idea of where to start and what to expect from the course. With this reality in mind, the goal of this paper is to provide an initial guide for those new students. Hence, we present practical tips and ideas, as a “talk between friends” reading, hoping to foster a good start and lead during the cou...

America’s Constitution, Written and Unwritten

Normalising Audio Transcriptions for Unwritten Languages

The task of documenting the world’s languages is a mainstream activity in linguistics which is yet to spill over into computational linguistics. We propose a new task of transcription normalisation as an algorithmic method for speeding up the process of transcribing audio sources, leading to text collections of usable quality. We report on the application of sentence and word alignment algorith...

What is past is prologue.

Alfred Blalock had a remarkable career as a clinical surgeon, laboratory investigator, and a teacher of medical students and residents. This article examines certain potential critical influences on his career, including Drs William Halsted and Barney Brooks, and Dr Blalock's early years as a resident and subsequently a faculty member at Vanderbilt. It is intended as a focused review, utilizing...