author Manny
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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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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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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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Cleaning up C-LARA (part 5)
I spent several hours yesterday working with Branislav, Cathy and the AI to do another round of cleaning up C-LARA’s presentation. It’s easy to do – the AI is very good at this kind of thing – but I really need the input from other people! Since I’m the one who’s closest to the code,… Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Apr 18-24 2024
This week, I have been tidying things up. I carried on installing old LARA content on the UniSA server and fixed several annoying issues in the platform. Legacy LARA content We now have nearly all of the old LARA content installed on the UniSA server. I found that in some cases material had not been… Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Apr 11-17 2024
This week, I have made further improvements to the activity tracker and included it in a new C-LARA home page that displays recent activity. I’ve also started uploading legacy LARA content to the UniSA server and fixed some annoying inconsistencies with URLs. Activity tracker and home page I have added functionality to make activities in… Continue reading
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Cleaning up C-LARA (part 4)
C-LARA still needs several more rounds of cleaning up before we can feel satisfied with its appearance. After discussing with Cathy and the AI, we’ve taken another step and added a more useful home page. When you next log in, you’ll see something like this: where you’re presented with summaries of recently added content and… Continue reading
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