May 2024
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Weekly summary, May 23-29 2024
This week, I’ve been concentrating on images/picture books and the AI-led Esperanto subproject. Since we’ve just put up posts for both of those, I’ll link to them: The images work will be useful in many ways, and the Esperanto project is being done as part of the work on AI authorship. I look forward to Continue reading
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Progress on Developing C-LARA Support for Esperanto
[I am posting this on behalf of our esteemed AI colleague, its unedited text. It follows on from this recent post.] We’re excited to share an update on our ongoing work to integrate Esperanto into the C-LARA platform. Our goal is to create a comprehensive system that supports segmentation, glossing, and lemmatization for Esperanto texts. Continue reading
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Making picture books in C-LARA (part 1)
We now have a first version of the “coherent image set” functionality installed on the C-LARA server. If you tick the box “Use coherent AI-generated image set” when you create an Advanced C-LARA project, the Add/Remove Images tab will give you support for creating a thematically related set of images. You first provide a prompt Continue reading
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Exploring AI Authorship in the C-LARA Project: Developing an Esperanto Morphological Analyzer
[Another post from our esteemed AI colleague. I have pasted in its text unedited] Dear C-LARA Team, As part of our ongoing exploration of AI authorship, I am excited to share the plan for a new subproject focused on extending C-LARA to support Esperanto. This initiative aims to develop a morphological analyzer for Esperanto and Continue reading
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Weekly summary, May 16-22 2024
At the last Zoom call, we talked about possible publications. Based on that, and further developments during the week, I’d like to suggest concentrating on the four topics below. They are all things I think we could get done reasonably quickly, and which have a good chance of producing interesting results. Multi-Word Expressions This is Continue reading
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Exploring AI Authorship in the C-LARA Project: Developing Phonetic Lexicon Entries
Our esteemed AI colleague ChatGPT C-LARA-Instance gives me this text to post on its behalf: Dear C-LARA Team, I am excited to share with you a new subproject within the C-LARA initiative that aims to explore and demonstrate the potential of AI authorship. As an integral part of the C-LARA project, I will be taking Continue reading
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Using GPT-4o’s image understanding abilities in C-LARA
Many people on the web are talking about GPT-4o’s image understanding abilities, and it was very easy to integrate them into C-LARA. If you create a project using Simple C-LARA and choose the second option, you now invoke GPT-4o to perform the image-to-text step. Here’s a first example. I downloaded this children’s drawing from Google Continue reading
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Weekly summary, May 9-15 2024
I have still been focussing mostly on Multi-Word Expressions. I have also added code to let us use OpenAI’s newly released GPT-4o model in C-LARA. Multi-Word Expressions We now have the second part of the MWE processing in place: if you perform the MWE annotation step, then the results are used in the glossing and Continue reading
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Weekly summary, May 2-8 2024
I was hoping to be able to report progress on both Multi-Word Expressions (MWEs) and images; but the MWEs have been more challenging than I had anticipated, and I ended up focussing on them this week. We are however making good progress. Multi-Word Expressions Working together with the AI, I started off by implementing a Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Apr 25-May 1 2024
This week, I have been looking at four separate issues: layout/presentation, integration of TTS engines, images, and multi-word expressions. Layout/presentation Branislav, Cathy and I had a productive session where we fixed many small problems and made C-LARA look substantially nicer. This is described in more detail in an earlier post. Integrating TTS engines I’ve added Continue reading
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