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July 4th ABAIR Meeting

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Oscar Maharg Bravo
Undergraduate Student
Joey McInerney
Masters Student
Cormac O'Sullivan
Undergraduate Student
Ailbhe Ní Chasaide
Adjunct Professor
Liam Lonergan
PhD Candidate
Andy Murphy
Research Fellow
Finn Farrell
Undergraduate Student
Neasa Ní Chiaráin
Assistant Professor of Speech and Language Technologies, PI ABAIR Project
Amanda Bernhard
Research Fellow
Oskar Mroz
Graduate Student
Muireann Nic Corcrain
Postgraduate Student
Joseph Hand
Graduate Student
Ronan Hegarty
Undergraduate Student

Highlights

  • The Official ABAIR Van is under development!
  • Irish classes 1:00, online Mondays and Fridays.
  • Progress on Meall an Óige, Míle Glór na nÓg and Fotheideal.
  • Ready for recording speech in An Rinn.
  • More students starting soon.

Oscar

  • Coming back soon to work on Fotheideal.

Joey

  • Going on holiday for 2 weeks. Training LLM while he’s gone.
  • Copy of initial test shown after 10 hours of training - asked it to auto-complete a story in 200 words. Syntactically works, semantics are a bit off, still.

Cormac

  • Working on creating a new section in Meall an Óige, Writing Step.
  • Working on games for students to teach basic writing in Irish.

Ailbhe

  • Arranging meeting with John to give Oskar access to the server.

Liam

  • Wrote an abstract and running experiments for Fotheideal.
  • Performance on Fotheideal improved a lot.

Andy

  • Met with the people working on building the official ABAIR van.

Finn

  • Talking to Rian about the abair authentication system.
  • Coming back to Ireland on the 14th of July

Amanda

  • Met with Nioclás Ó Laoghaire, NCSE
  • Building wireframes for Neartú.

Oskar

  • Updating Míle Glór na nÓg UI. The plaform is pretty much ready to go.
  • Adjusting up the translations editor for non-technical members.
  • Fixing the app after updating deprecated dependencies in Meall an Óige.

Muireann

  • Recording equipment set up in An Rinn this week.
  • Ready for full recording beginning next week. (7th July)

Joe Hand

  • Making progress on An Scealai Digital Reader. Updated old docs on developer setup.

Ronan

  • Working on Mayo corpus from 14th July.
  • Will get in touch with Bríd about availability for recording.