Weekly summary, Oct 26 – Nov 2 2023

Here the usual roundup of the week’s activities:

Melbourne student projects: Annotated Images

We now have almost all the functionality on the C-LARA side to integrate the Annotated Images project. It is possible to do the following through the C-LARA top-level:

Attach an image to a project;
Say where it should be placed;
Associate text with it;
Pass the text through the usual ChatGPT-based annotate-and-edit sequence;
Associate a structure which pairs words with areas;
Render the result to create a C-LARA text with a mouse-sensitive image.

I just need to do a little more cleaning up, in particular making it possible to attach more than one image to a text, and expect to have this done well before the students get back from their exam period.

Memory and plugins

The provider of the AskTheCode plugin has resolved the issue we were experiencing last week and has just released another feature, which will allow the AI autonomy in retrieving individual functions/methods from a file. This should be extremely useful for collaborative code development. In general, it is amazing to see how quickly new functionality is being added to this plugin.

Conference presentations

We have submitted the final version of the ALTA 2023 paper.

I put together a draft presentation for WorldCALL on Nov 9 and we are discussing how to finalise it. In particular, Alex will confer with his students to select three projects for inclusion, probably as short (1-2 minute) videos.

UniSA server

We got stuck on a low-level security issue affecting access to the server, but the sysadmins say they are now close to resolving it.

“Phonetic texts”, Pauline Welby

We have been talking with Pauline Welby (CNRS and University of New Caledonia) about porting the LARA “phonetic text” functionality into C-LARA. This is what we used for example in the alphabet book project. Pauline has just submitted a proposal for a small project where the new functionality would be used in connection with the New Caledonian languages she has been working with. She will be visiting Adelaide Nov 22-25 to discuss this further; I am planning to have a basic first version working by then.

Next Zoom call

Note to Southern Hemisphere people: one hours later than last week due to Daylight Savings Time change in Europe.

Thu Nov 2, 2023, 20:00 Adelaide (= 09.30 Iceland = 09.30 Ireland/Faroe Islands = 10.30 Europe = 11.30 Israel = 13.00 Iran = 17.30 China = 20:30 Melbourne/New Caledonia)

Usual Zoom link.