C-LARA

The AI and I have continued working on the list of priority items. We have submitted our article to the Palgrave Encyclopaedia of CALL, and I’ve been talking with the students at Melbourne Uni.

Priority list

We are continuing with the priority list: as before, the completed ones are marked [done]. The most interesting new pieces of functionality are for displaying MWEs. We now show MWEs as units when we hover or click on them, so hovering over one component highlights all the components, and clicking on one component plays audio for the whole MWE. I have rerendered some texts to show how it works, e.g. look at Supermodel Lisa Loves Phrasal Verbs.

We have started implementing parallelism for annotation, using the Python asyncio package. This is coming along well (fortunately, the AI knows asyncio much better than I do), and we are already testing an initial version on my laptop. So far, it looks good. When we have this installed on the server, Chain of Thought will be much faster and we’ll be able to use it in more places.

Encyclopaedia article

Branislav, the AI and I have submitted the article on generative AI and CALL to the Palgrave Encyclopaedia. We don’t know yet though if they will accept the AI author, still waiting to hear back from them.

Melbourne students

I have been talking with the students at Melbourne Uni about their projects. The Image Annotator group are looking at the Segment Anything Model and think they may be able to use it. The Music group are looking at ideas for integrating Suno.

If either group can succeed, we’ll have some very interesting and useful new functionality.

Next Zoom call

The next call will be at:

Thu Aug 15 2024, 18:00 Adelaide (= 08.30 Iceland = 09.30 Ireland/Faroe Islands = 10.30 Europe = 11.30 Israel = 12.00 Iran = 16.30 China = 18:30 Melbourne = 19.30 New Caledonia)