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Weekly report, Feb 13-19 2025
Over the last week, we’ve been focussing on two things: images, which are now starting to work quite well, and the beginnings of our ambitious project to refactor the code-base so that the AI can understand it better. Images Sophie has been using the image-generation functionality a great deal over the last few weeks to Continue reading
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Where we are on C-LARA: a Jan 2025 update
We’re now close to the end of the current development cycle for C-LARA, and we should review our priorities before we start on the next one. This post summarises what we’ve done over the last 8-9 months, what we’re currently in the middle of, and what we might do next. What we’ve done Here are Continue reading
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Which C-LARA content is being accessed?
o1 and I (mostly o1, if the truth be known) have just added some more functionality to the C-LARA “Published content” menu. It’s now possible to get the content sorted not just alphabetically, but also by age or by total number of accesses. Here are the current top ten by number of accesses: Interesting to Continue reading
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Mixing AI-generated and uploaded images
The new C-LARA image-generation functionality is making excellent progress, and the latest thing I added is so cute I just have to share it with you all. A couple of weeks ago, Fabrice said it would useful for picture dictionaries if we could mix AI-generated and uploaded images. The rationale is straightforward. For words that Continue reading
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Boy Meets Girl
I am getting quite close now to having the new image generation code integrating and thought it would be useful to have a toy text. It’s quicker to debug with; it also gives us some initial ideas about how we might do with picture dictionaries, which are unlikely to have the complexity you get when Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Oct 24-30 2024
There has been more progress on the new image generation functionality. We submitted an abstract to the 2025 edition of the Conference On Oceanic Languages. Improved image generation I have implemented the idea for improved checking of images that I outlined in last week’s update. When the AI is asked to check whether an image Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Oct 17-23 2024
The new image generation functionality continues to make progress. The Melbourne student teams have nearly finished and appear to have produced useful functionality. Improved image generation I am still focussing on the new image generation functionality, and have reorganised the code to make it easy to run tests and experiment with different variants of the Continue reading
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Which parts of an image are important?
I have been testing the new image generation functionality, and this has thrown up some interesting issues. I thought people following the picture book work might be curious to see the details, so here’s a nice example from La Fontaine’s classic story of the Crow and the Fox, where C-LARA is currently getting it wrong. Continue reading
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Biweekly summary, Oct 3-16 2024
The new image generation functionality is now working in standalone mode. We submitted an extended abstract to the ComputEL-8 meeting. Improved image generation The new image generation functionality is now working as standalone code. The basic idea is to create multiple text specifications, then multiple images from each specifications, then use the AI to find Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Sep 26-Oct 2 2024
This week, I’ve been concentrating on rewriting the image generation functionality. Support for non-AI languages now appears to be working quite well. The French Embassy have been helpful about the funding for the New Caledonian projects. Improved image generation The two central functionalities in C-LARA are text annotation and image generation. Following improvement in MWE Continue reading
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