C-LARA

Over the last month, people who’ve been following this blog will have seen that we’ve made substantial progress on picture books and multi-word expressions. We now have usable functionality installed on the server, and I’ve collected things together in an interim tech report which I’ve just posted here on ResearchGate. This includes instructions for using the new functionalities, a brief explanation of how they work, a complete example (“Kitten’s Busy Morning”), and links to several other picture books we’ve created.

The “Further directions” section lists several interesting ideas to explore next. It seems to me that this has a great deal of potential; kudos to all the people who kept saying that picture books were a good thing to be working on. It is partly that they are interesting in their own right, and partly that they give us an easy place to start when experimenting with general techniques involving increased AI autonomy.

I look forward to seeing what happens when other people try to create their own picture books! Needless to say, there are still plenty of rough edges to smooth out, and if things don’t work as you expect then please mail me.

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