multi-words
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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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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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Multi-Word Expressions/Islam
I recompiled GPT-4’s charming story Finley the kitten converts to Islam using the latest version of C-LARA. While checking the result, I was impressed to see that the Chain-of-Thought Multi-Word Expression annotation phase had, without any prompting from me, decided that “the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)” was a multi-word expression, following which the glossing phase had Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Sep 12-18 2024
OpenAI have released the new o1 model earlier than expected! This has upended our schedule in a very good way, and I’ve spend most of the week experimenting with it. We have made a bit of progress on some other things as well. O1 model The new o1-preview model, previously known as “Strawberry”, is now Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Sep 5-11 2024
We have made good progress on both adaptation of the reinforcement learning/Chain of Thought idea to C-LARA and support for non-AI languages. A version of the Palgrave Encyclopaedia article has been published as a ResearchGate preprint. Priority list Reinforcement learning and Chain of Thought for MWEs. We have a first version of the core framework in Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Aug 29-Sep 4 2024
We are continuing with two large items from the priority list: adaptation of the reinforcement learning/Chain of Thought idea to C-LARA, and support for non-AI languages. The Palgrave Encyclopaedia article will be published in the EUROCALL proceedings and also as a ResearchGate preprint. Priority list Reinforcement learning and Chain of Thought for MWEs. We have made Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Aug 22-28 2024
We are making progress on adapting the reinforcement learning/Chain of Thought idea to C-LARA and on support for non-AI languages. The Melbourne students are continuing to develop their projects, with encouraging results. The Palgrave Encyclopaedia article will be published elsewhere. Priority list Reinforcement learning and Chain of Thought for MWEs. I have been discussing with Francis Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Aug 8-14 2024
The AI and I have continued working on the list of priority items. We have submitted our article to the Palgrave Encyclopaedia of CALL, and I’ve been talking with the students at Melbourne Uni. Priority list We are continuing with the priority list: as before, the completed ones are marked [done]. The most interesting new pieces of Continue reading
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Priorities for next phase
Over the last couple of weeks, the AI and I took some time out to do a study on using GPT-4 to play Tic-Tac-Toe. It may sound frivolous, but it’s provided some remarkably useful insights into how to do GPT-4 prompting better. I’ve also got a lot of comments from C-LARA users, both from our Continue reading
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Weekly summary, June 6-12 2024
Over the last month, people who’ve been following this blog will have seen that we’ve made substantial progress on picture books and multi-word expressions. We now have usable functionality installed on the server, and I’ve collected things together in an interim tech report which I’ve just posted here on ResearchGate. This includes instructions for using Continue reading
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