An article presenting the ColloCaid project is now available for online first view in Language Teaching. It is based on a plenary address given at TechLing 2017 by ColloCaid Principal Investigator Dr Ana Frankenberg-Garcia. In her talk, Dr Frankenberg-Garcia highlights a generalised underuse of dictionaries which is often attributed to a lack of training in Read more about ColloCaid Plenary in Language Teaching[…]
ColloCaid co-investigator Professor Robert Lew gave a presentation about the ColloCaid project at the 18th International EURALEX Congress in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The presentation addressed the background and rationale of the project, the steps involved in curating the lexicographical data, and the steps taken to ensure that the tool is user-friendly and minimally distracting to users Read more about ColloCaid at the 18th International EURALEX Congress[…]
On Friday the 20th of July 2018, ColloCaid principal investigator Ana Frankenberg-Garcia and researcher Geraint Rees presented a paper about the ColloCaid project at TaLC 2018 in Cambridge, United Kingdom. The paper focused on the role of the ColloCaid tool in helping academic writers acquire collocations. It also outlined the rationale underlying the tool’s lexicographic Read more about ColloCaid at TaLC 2018[…]
On Saturday the 9th of June 2018, ColloCaid co-investigator Professor Robert Lew gave a presentation about the ColloCaid project at ASIALEX 2018 in Krabi, Thailand. As well as setting out the rationale behind the project, Professor Lew outlined the methodology used to create the tool before ending the presentation with a short video demo of Read more about ColloCaid at ASIALEX 2018[…]
ColloCaid principal investigator Ana Frankenberg-Garcia recently undertook a week-long research stay at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, where she worked with researchers investigating the problems Brazilian students studying at UK universities experience with collocations when writing in English. During her stay she gave a talk about the challenges and benefits Read more about ColloCaid in Brazil[…]
On Friday the 10th of November 2017 Ana Frankenberg-Garcia gave an invited talk entitled Combining user needs, lexicographic data and digital writing environments at the University of Bologna, Forlì Campus. The talk placed the ColloCaid project in the wider context of the development of monolingual learner dictionaries. Tracing the evolution of such lexical resources from Read more about ColloCaid at TechLING’17[…]
Professor Jonathan C. Roberts presented the poster: “Visualisation and graphical techniques to help writers write more idiomatically,” (Roberts, Frankenberg-Garcia, Lew, Rees, & Pereda, 2017) at the IEEE Conference on Visualization (VIS) in Pheonix Arizona. A video preview of the poster can be found here. IEEE VIS 2017 is the premier forum for advances in visual analytics, Read more about Report: ColloCaid at IEEE Vis ’17[…]
Some ColloCaid researchers will be presenting at IEEE Visualisation Conference. These are publications (and happenings) that are associated with conference (IEEE VIS) in early October. The conference is the largest and most important conference on visualisation. Full paper: J. C. Roberts, P. D. Ritsos, J. Jackson, and C. Headleand, “The explanatory visualization framework: An active learning Read more about ColloCaid at IEEE Vis ’17[…]