ColloCaid: a tool to help academic English writers find the words they need

Ana Frankenberg-Garcia; Geraint Rees; Robert Lew; Jonathan C. Roberts; Nirwan Sharma; Peter Butcher

doi:10.14705/rpnet.2019.38.1000

ColloCaid: a tool to help academic English writers find the words they need

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https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2019.38.1000
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Ana Frankenberg-Garcia
University of Surrey
Geraint Rees
University of Surrey
Robert Lew
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan
Jonathan C. Roberts
School of Computer Science & Engineering
Nirwan Sharma
Peter Butcher
College of Science & Engineering

This short paper summarizes the development of ColloCaid, a text editor that supports writers with academic English collocations. After a brief introduction, the paper summarizes how the lexicographic database underlying ColloCaid was compiled, how text-editor integration was achieved, and results from initial user studies. The paper concludes by outlining future developments.

Keywords

Lexicographic information, visualisation

Original language	English
Pages	144-150
Number of pages	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2019.38.1000
Publication status	Published - 9 Dec 2019
Event	EUROCALL 2019: CALL and Complexity - KU Leuven, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium Duration: 28 Aug 2019 → 31 Aug 2019 https://sites.uclouvain.be/eurocall2019/

Conference

Conference	EUROCALL 2019
Country/Territory	Belgium
City	Louvain-la-Neuve
Period	28/08/19 → 31/08/19
Internet address	https://sites.uclouvain.be/eurocall2019/