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[…]

ColloCaid at the BAAL CL SIG event ‘New Directions in DDL’

On Friday the 8th of June the ColloCaid team took part in the BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG Event ‘New Directions in DDL’.  In our presentation New directions in DDL for EAP writers we presented the ColloCaid tool as a means of Data Driven Learning; helping learners engage with corpus data dynamically in such a way Read more about ColloCaid at the BAAL CL SIG event ‘New Directions in DDL’[…]

ColloCaid at ULisboa

Ana Frankenberg-Garcia gave a talk entitled Practical Applications of Corpora at Universidade de Lisboa on Monday the 23rd of October 2017. ColloCaid featured prominently as an innovative example of a corpus-driven approach employed to solve a real-world problem. The project aims to help EAP writers express themselves more quickly, accurately, and idiomatically. Exploiting the possibilities Read more about ColloCaid at ULisboa[…]