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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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Feedback after using C-LARA at the Romanian school Eindhoven for the first time
On Saturday a week ago, Lucreția and I (Claudia) used C-LARA to create 2 stories at the Romanian school Eindhoven. We had 2 classes: the younger kids (6-7 year olds) and older kids (I think 8-10 yo). Lucretia directed the activities and I used C-LARA. We projected the computer screen on the wall. Next, I… 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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“Simple C-LARA”
We now have an initial version of “Simple C-LARA” on the UniSA server. If you select “Create new C-LARA project using simple C-LARA” from the top-level menu, you will get a stripped-down interface where you just specify a title, the text and annotation languages, and a prompt. In response to a single button press, C-LARA… Continue reading
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Planning for C-LARA
Rina and I were chatting on Zoom about what we should be doing next in C-LARA. We have so many interesting things going on, but development is currently rather haphazard and impulse-driven – a more systematic planning process would help. Here are some thoughts arising from our talk, arranged under three headings: 1) short-term priorities,… Continue reading
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