Progress report
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Phonetic texts: current state of play, Jan 2 2024
We have several parallel discussions in progress about the phonetic texts. I thought it would be helpful to summarise where we are now, and what we’re planning to do next. By “phonetic text”, we mean a C-LARA text where the words have been divided into smaller units, each one associated with a phonetic value, and… Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Dec 21-27 2023
Phonetic texts Claudia wondered if we could use the phonetic text functionality for Romanian. There is a phonetic lexicon available at ipa-dict, so it seemed straightforward, but in actual fact I found I had to fix a number of small issues. I have now installed the phonetic lexica for Romanian and Icelandic, and things are… Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Dec 14-20
Phonetic texts This functionality now seems to be working well, we have been using it a lot during the last week. Alphabet book for Drehu Pauline and I have almost finished the alphabet book for Drehu – all that’s left is to upload the audio, Pauline and her colleague Fabrice are working on that now.… Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Dec 7 – 13 2023
Phonetic texts A first version of the phonetic text functionality is now more or less complete. Here are the main points: Images I have cleaned up the interface we use for handling images. It’s now simple to upload and revise images attached to a C-LARA text. Alphabet book for Drehu Pauline and I have been… Continue reading
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Two-week summary: Nov 23 – Dec 6, 2023
We sort of took a week off to visit Queensland, here is a summary for the last two weeks: ALTA Alex presented our paper at ALTA 2023, it sounded like it went well! You can read it here. Phonetic texts I’ve been mostly focussing on this, there’s been a lot of progress. I need to… Continue reading
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Weekly summary: Nov 17 – Nov 22, 2023
Here is this week’s roundup: UniSA server The UniSA server appears to be fully operational. We have now been running it for a couple of weeks, no one has reported any issues. GPT-4 Turbo I reran the Swedish glossing operation for the six English examples in our upcoming ALTA paper. Here are the error rates:… Continue reading
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Weekly summary: Nov 10 – Nov 16 2023
Here is this week’s roundup: UniSA server The UniSA server is now operational! It would be good to test it more, but several people have used it and I haven’t received any complaints. It is indeed a great deal more responsive than Heroku. I’m thinking that we should make this available to external people in… Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Nov 3 – Nov 9 2023
Here is this week’s roundup: UniSA server The thing I’ve spent most time on this week is the UniSA server, which has made a great deal of progress. Almost everything is now installed, and a lot of it is working. It’s possible to use the core modules to create an internal project, use the AI… Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Oct 26 – Nov 2 2023
Here the usual roundup of the week’s activities: Melbourne student projects: Annotated Images We now have almost all the functionality on the C-LARA side to integrate the Annotated Images project. It is possible to do the following through the C-LARA top-level: I just need to do a little more cleaning up, in particular making it… Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Oct 19-25 2023
Here’s a summary of what’s been happening this week: Melbourne student projects We were lucky enough to be in Melbourne today when the students gave their final presentations. Things are going well. The students are keen to make sure that their work can be integrated into C-LARA, and it looks like we have a clear… Continue reading