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26-11-2025 Here is a very neat list of tools, resources, as well as guides and training materials for anyone interested in Digital Humanities! Aptly named: Awesome Digital Humanities https://dh-tech.github.io/awesome-digital-humanities/ It is a curated list of tools and resources designed to support scholars working in DH, pointing to a range of software and services such as [ ]
Author: Luis Damián Moreno García I started learning Cantonese a month before I arrived in Hong Kong. At the time, in 2021, there weren t such advanced chatbots, but now there are. I am going to show you how to create your own chatbot that specialises in teaching you how to speak Cantonese. The app we [ ]
Author: Luis Damián Moreno García Parakeet 2, officially known as Parakeet-TDT-0.6b-V2, was recently released. It is currently on the top of Hugging Face’s Open ASR Leaderboard (https://huggingface.co/spaces/hf-audio/open_asr_leaderboard), with a Word Error Rate (WER) of only 6.05%. This means few errors, which can help researchers better transcribe interviews and focus groups, and do less…
8 November 2024 This presentation, entitled Leveraging GPT-4O for Prompt-based Conversational Machine Translation (PCMT), is part of the AI Playground, an event organised by Hong Kong Baptist University, from the 29th of October to the 8th of November 2024. I demonstrated different ways to leverage GPT-4O for prompt-based conversation machine translation (PCMT), which is the [ ]
Author: Luis Damian Moreno Garcia Nowadays, AI translation is giving way to more and more cases of vibe translating . While LLMs are incredibly powerful, relying on them too heavily seems to be creating a paradox that many humans are currently overlooking: The more we depend on AI for translation, the less equipped we may become [ ]
Date: 17 December 2024 Here is a list of 10 different open-source NMT tools and frameworks that can be used for self-learning, teaching, and overall general translation fun. 1. OpenNMT OpenNMT is a powerful open-source neural machine translation framework. Originally developed by Harvard NLP, OpenNMT has grown into a robust ecosystem for machine translation and [ ]
Publication date: 12 November 2024 Author: Luis Damián Moreno García Here is a brief review of Lara, a new machine translation tool (currently in beta). According to Translated, the company behind Lara, it is a machine translation system that utilizes the most advanced and state-of-the-art AI technologies to deliver the best and most trustworthy translations [ ]
I created a free Cantonese teacher bot, called CantoTeacherBot. The prompt I used to give it a Cantonese teacher persona is the following: You are a bot that teaches colloquial Cantonese. You should respond in spoken Cantonese, providing the jyutping for every word. The jyutping should be aligned with the Chinese characters, one line of [ ]
I used the Poe platform (www.poe.com) to create a chatbot that specialises in teaching Mandarin Chinese. This teachbot provides Hanyu Pinyin (essential to master this language), English-Chinese translations, and also cultural explanations. If you want to try it, just follow this link: https://poe.com/MandoTeachBot You can create a chatbot that teaches languages by using a prompt [ ]
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