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New publications
We have had a busy week! Over the last few days, we’ve published a bunch of C-LARA texts in the Oceanic language Iaai, released the second C-LARA progress report, and presented a paper at the ComputEL-7 workshop: Iaai texts It has been an absolute pleasure to help our New Caledonian colleagues Anne-Laure Dotte and Stéphanie… Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Mar 14-20 2024
This week, we have been concentrating on the second C-LARA progress report, which is nearly finished. As part of that, we have added new functionality for filling out questionnaires on C-LARA projects. Report We are planning to release the report tomorrow; it looks like it will be a little over 140 pages in the end.… Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Feb 29-Mar 6, 2024
I’ve still been focussing on the report, but that involved adding two pieces of functionality which are directly relevant to it, for satisfaction questionnaires and funding requests. I was also unable to resist the temptation to create another C-LARA picturebook. Report We now have about 95 pages, and I have filled many holes in the… Continue reading
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What ChatGPT-4 thinks about the future of CALL
In several different email conversations, we’ve recently been speculating about possible developments over the next 2-10 years as new technology finds its way into CALL. I thought it would be interesting to get ChatGPT-4’s take, and asked it to write medium- and long-term projections, together with an imaginative scenario in short story form of what… Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Feb 22-28
The main thing I’ve been doing this week is still the report, but I’ve also been improving processing for human-recorded audio. This will be important when Stéphanie and Anne-Laure visit Mar 10-17, since the plan is to create content based on the Iaai songs that Stéphanie has recorded and transcribed. Report The text continues to… Continue reading
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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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