Simple C-LARA
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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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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, Apr 25-May 1 2024
This week, I have been looking at four separate issues: layout/presentation, integration of TTS engines, images, and multi-word expressions. Layout/presentation Branislav, Cathy and I had a productive session where we fixed many small problems and made C-LARA look substantially nicer. This is described in more detail in an earlier post. Integrating TTS engines I’ve added Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Apr 18-24 2024
This week, I have been tidying things up. I carried on installing old LARA content on the UniSA server and fixed several annoying issues in the platform. Legacy LARA content We now have nearly all of the old LARA content installed on the UniSA server. I found that in some cases material had not been Continue reading
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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, 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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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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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, 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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