author Manny
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Weekly summary, Feb 15-21 2024
We’re planning to release our second C-LARA progress report soon, and I have spent most of this week working on things relevant to that. In more detail: General We have a lot more text: at the beginning of the week there were about 15 pages in the Overleaf document, and now there are over 50.… Continue reading
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Paul und Emma: a C-LARA picture book
We needed an extended example for our upcoming second C-LARA report, and I was in any case curious, so yesterday I tried constructing a short children’s picture book in C-LARA. The idea I suggested was a fanciful but responsible story for small children, in German, about a penguin and a polar bear that get together… Continue reading
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Cleaning up C-LARA (part 3)
More progress on layout and formatting… Right-to-left languages As Chadi pointed out yesterday, rendering in right-to-left languages was seriously broken. Chat and I have done the following: As far as I can tell, things are now working – but I have no feeling at all for RTL languages, so please let me know if further… Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Feb 8-14 2024
This week, I have been working on “reading histories”, additions to simple C-LARA, cleaning up the layout, and better support for Japanese: ‘Reading histories’ Reading histories now support phonetic texts. They seem to work as intended, but I haven’t yet tested them thoroughly enough. Note that you can only include a text in a reading… Continue reading
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Cleaning up C-LARA (part 2)
Pauline had some useful suggestions about further cleaning up of the C-LARA layout. My replies in italics: Logo 1 Logo 2 Logo 3 Keep those suggestions coming! Continue reading
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Cleaning up C-LARA
As many people have said, C-LARA’s appearance so far leaves a great deal to be desired. It lacks the styling typical of modern web apps. I have been holding off on addressing these issues, since I thought it was more important to get the functionality in place first. But now that the functionality seems to… Continue reading
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Creating texts out of images with simple C-LARA
I have extended simple C-LARA so that we have more ways to create a text. The initial screen now looks like this: The most exciting possibility is the second one, which uses GPT-4V to do the work; as it says, you just upload an image and tell the AI how to use it. Here are… Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Feb 1-7 2024
This week, I have mostly been working on the ComputEL-7 paper, “reading histories” and better support for Mandarin: ComputEL-7 paper Pauline and I completed the final version of the ComputEL-7 paper and sent it in. The result was a great deal better than the rather sketchy submission version, we made good use of the week and… Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Jan 25-31 2024
This week, I have been working on four things: “Simple C-LARA”, the ComputEL-7 paper, the second progress report, and an initial version of “reading histories”. Simple C-LARA We now have the enhancement to keep track of dependencies between project phases installed on the UniSA server, so that Simple C-LARA will only need to recompile the… Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Jan 18-24 2024
This week, I have been mostly concentrating on “Simple C-LARA”. I posted an initial report here. Since then, Claudia and Lucretia have already used it in an initial session at the Romanian school in Holland! Claudia provided a lot of useful feedback and things are moving along well. I have just checked in an enhancement… Continue reading
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