ColloCaid at the 28th PASE Conference

On 28 June 2019, Robert Lew gave a presentation about the ColloCaid tool at the 28th PASE Conference, Poznań, Poland. He talked about the need for ColloCaid, problems inherent in existing resources, and the construction of the lexicographic database which underlies the tool. He also reported on recent usability studies involving the tool. Further information Read more about ColloCaid at the 28th PASE Conference[…]

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ColloCaid at Universidade Europeia

Ana Frankenberg-Garcia gave an invited seminar at the Universidade Europeia Doctoral College in Lisbon, on Friday 21 June. She talked about the evolution of dictionaries and the benefits of integrating dictionaries and text editors. Participants were given the opportunity to try out a beta version of the ColloCaid text editor on their own devices.

ColloCaid at EuroVis2019

On Wednesday 5th of June, Jonathan Roberts reported on a study at the 21st edition of the EuroVis conference in Porto, Portugal. The study, presented as the paper “Multiple Views: different meanings and collocated words“, examined the terminology and phraseology of using ‘multiple views’, ‘many presentations’ and ‘alternative visual depictions’ in the area of visualisation. This research offers insights into how people use these Read more about ColloCaid at EuroVis2019[…]

ColloCaid at Universidade de São Paulo

On Monday the 15th of April ColloCaid principal investigator Ana Frankenberg-Garcia gave a talk at the Departamento de Letras Modernas Universidade de São Paulo entitled: Novas ferramentas lexicográficas: um editor de textos que auxilia no emprego de colocações em textos acadêmicos/ New lexicographic tools: a text editor that assists in the use of collocations in Read more about ColloCaid at Universidade de São Paulo[…]

ColloCaid Trials in Brazil

Trials of the ColloCaid tool took place at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and at the São José do Rio Preto campus of Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”. The trials formed part of a series of workshops aimed at supporting the internationalisation of Brazilian research. More information can be found here.

ColloCaid at the Specialised Discourse and Multimedia Conference

In February of 2019 ColloCaid Principal Investigator Ana Frankenberg-Garcia gave a plenary talk entitled Integrating dictionary and text-editor architectures to help writers with academic English collocations at the Specialised Discourse and Multimedia conference at the University of Salento in Lecce, Italy. She began by giving an overview of how pedagogical dictionaries have evolved, and of Read more about ColloCaid at the Specialised Discourse and Multimedia Conference[…]