ColloCaid

ColloCaid at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”

Geraint — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 10:01:56 +0000

On Monday 25 October 2021, at 10:30 am (GMT+2), ColloCaid co-investigator Professor Robert Lew will be giving a talk about ColloCaid at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” (the Orientale University). The talk will be available via Microsoft Teams. Uniori members can get a link to the talk by filling out this form https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg.

ColloCaid in Euralex Plenary

Geraint — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 14:59:13 +0000

ColloCaid will feature in Robert Lew and Ana Frankenberg-Garcia’s Joint Hornby Lecture: Writing with Dictionaries. The lecture is the opening plenary at Euralex XIX. It will take place place at 10:00 CEST on Tuesday 7 September. More information is available at https://euralex2020.gr/.

ColloCaid in the International Journal of Lexicography

Geraint — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 14:48:12 +0000

Issue 34 Volume 2 of the International Journal of Lexicography features an article about issues in automated lexicography and the need for skilled lexicographers. The article was informed by the development of ColloCaid. It is open access and available to all here.

ColloCaid in Featured Talk at AILA2021

Geraint — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 18:11:32 +0000

Ana Frankenberg-Garcia gave a featured talk at AILA 2021. Using ColloCaid as an example, the talk, entitled Dynamic data-driven learning, outlined the possibilities of providing just-in-time corpus data to address authentic language queries interactively, but at the same time sheltering learners from complex software and an overload of language input.

A recording o f the talk is available here.

A FLaRN Webinar about ColloCaid

Geraint — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 09:35:36 +0000

On Friday July 9 2021 at 2pm UK time, ColloCaid Principal Investigator Ana Frankenberg-García will be giving a webinar on Academic English Collocations: from corpus data to assisted writing. The event is hosted by the Formulaic Language Research Network (FLaRN), and is free for all. Reserve your place here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/academic-english-collocations-from-corpus-data-to-assisted-writing-tickets-162302056821?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=escb

Note: You will find the Zoom link and password for the event in the Eventbrite confirmation email (under the additional information).

ColloCaid in IATEFL Voices Magazine

Geraint — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 14:06:24 +0000

ColloCaid features in the May/June 2021 edition of IATEFL Voices Magazine. The article “Helping writers with academic English collocations” offers an accessible, non-technical account of collocation and how it impacts language use.

ColloCaid at Infolex

Geraint — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 12:02:41 +0000

On the 12th of April 2021 at 1400 GMT + 1, Geraint Rees gave a seminar talk entitled Collocation and collaboration: Developing the ColloCaid writing assistant. The seminar was hosted by the Infolex research group at the Institut de Lingüística Aplicada, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. More information can be found here. A video can be found here.

The article mentioned in the talk is:

Frankenberg-Garcia, A., Rees, G., Lew, R. (2020) “Slipping Through the Cracks in e-Lexicography”. International Journal of Lexicography. (Advance article online)

ColloCaid code and documentation released

Geraint — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 21:50:00 +0000

The ColloCaid sample code and documentation has been released. The release includes a fully working implementation of the ColloCaid editor and visualization panel. The ColloCaid editor is a modified version of TinyMCE (https://www.tiny.cloud/) which integrates with the ColloCaid visualization panel, a ReactJS (https://reactjs.org) component that can be used to reproduce the visualizations available in the online ColloCaid editor.

Academic Collocation Errors and Other Problems Database Released

Geraint — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 04:33:39 +0000

Introducing the Academic Collocation Errors and Other Problems by ColloCaid. This dataset comprises 361 collocation errors and other issues found widely and frequently in English academic writing.
Problems are classed as:

(1) errors like *knowledge in how instead of knowledge of how;

(2) atypical word combinations that are grammatically acceptable but not very common, like lose control over (atypical) compared with lose control of (typical);

(3) strings that are wrong in most contexts, like knowledge in the (unacceptable most contexts, such as *knowledge in the issue), yet can be acceptable in a few contexts, like knowledge in the field of linguistics.

A variety of sources were used to compile the database, including learner corpora, textbooks, dictionaries, and grammars.

BALEAP TELSIG webinar about ColloCaid

Geraint — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 00:11:41 +0000

On Friday, 29 January 2021 at 12:00 pm UK, Ana Frankenberg-Garcia gave a webinar on ColloCaid. Ana presented some practical ideas and activities to help students make the right choices in terms of vocabulary and more specifically collocations in general academic English.

Slides from the webinar can be found here.

A recording of the presentation can be found here.