Jonathan Roberts – ColloCaid

Collocaid at Wales Academic Symposium on Language Technologies 2020

Jonathan Roberts — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 14:40:46 +0000

Jonathan Roberts and Peter Butcher presented Collocaid at the Wales Academic Symposium on Language Technologies 2020, that took place on the 4th November 2020. The focus on the symposium was on Language Technologies, including Speech Technology and Translation Technology; Natural Language Processing; and Artificial Intelligence and Language.

Professor Roberts said, “It was good presenting ColloCaid at this event. We gave a talk titled ‘Developing ColloCaid – lessons learnt in developing a text-editing tool, and visualising words, to help writers with collocations’. Our presentation was divided into four parts. We first gave background information about the project and the data, second presented how we had designed and developed ColloCaid, third discussed some lessons learnt, and finally we gave a demonstration of the latest version”.

Peter Butcher said “It was good presenting at this symposium and meeting other researchers in the area of language technologies”.

Pete Butcher giving the demonstration

Professor Roberts talks at the Turing Visualisation Interest Group

Jonathan Roberts — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 15:13:00 +0000

The second annual symposium of the Alan Turing Institute Visualization Interest Group (#VizTIG) was held virtually on the 8th September 2020. The fields of data science and artificial intelligence are generating outputs that are too complex for humans to understand in traditional ways. This symposium focused on ways that visualisation with data analysis can help users gain better insights into their data.

Turing Visualisation Interest Group

Professor Roberts spoke on “The data visualisation iceberg – a reflection on data visualisation”. In his presentation he featured the ColloCaid project, discussing how the project is like an iceberg, with a large carefully curated database, that underpins the visual editor. The dynamic data visualisations appear as the user types different words.

Keynote at the iCETiC 2020 – Emerging Technologies in Computing 2020

Jonathan Roberts — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 14:02:17 +0000

Professor Jonathan C. Roberts gave a keynote at the 3rd International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Computing 2020 (iCETiC ’20). The conference took place on the 19-20 August, 2020. It was originally planned to take place at London Metropolitan University, London, UK, but due to Covid-19 it was moved online. The conference was organised by the International Association of Educators and Researchers (IAER), and is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE UKRI Section, IEEE UKRI ComSoc Chapter, IEEE Bahrain Section, IEEE Bahrain ComSoc Section and the Chester and North wales Branch of the British Computer Society.

Professor Roberts’ keynote was titled “The data visualisation iceberg”. His presentation featured Collocaid as a case study. What the user sees is only part of the whole: they see an interactive user interface with several visualisations, but underneath is a complex carefully-curated database of over 30,000 collocations.

Keynote at iCCECE 2020 (IEEE Computing, Electronics & Communications Engineering)

Jonathan Roberts — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 13:50:06 +0000

Professor Jonathan C. Roberts gave a keynote at the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Computing, Electronics & Communications Engineering (IEEE iCCECE conference 2020 ’20). The conference was held on the 17 and 18th August, 2020. Originally it was planned to take place at the University of Essex, Southend Campus, UK, but due to Covid-19 the conference went online. His talk titled “Data-visualisation iceberg”, featured ColloCaid. Using our ColloCaid project as a worked case study he explained that the there is a huge quantity of data that underpins ColloCaid that has been carefully curated, and together with the created visualisations represent the data-visualisation iceberg.

iCCECE conference 2020

ColloCaid at Vis4DH2019

Jonathan Roberts — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 10:35:36 +0000

The ColloCaid team presented a paper titled “Co-creating an online learning environment to support academic writing: Lessons learnt in an interdisciplinary setting” at the 2019 Visualisation for Digital Humanities (Vis4DH) workshop that was co-located with the IEEE VIS (visualisation) conference, and held at the Vancouver Convention Centre East. The workshop took place on Sunday 20th October 2019 in Vancouver, Canada, and was attended by over 100 participants.

The conference attracts attendees from around the world. It encourages submissions from all fields of the humanities, social sciences and all branches of visualization.

In particular the 2019 workshop focused on presentations that discussed projects that bring different disciplines together. The ColloCaid team presented work on collaborating across lexicography, linguistics, human computer interaction and visualisation. In this paper “we discuss the user-centred design process in the development of an online learning environment for learners of English for Academic Purposes (EAP)… [and] present our experiences and lessons learnt when collaborating on ColloCaid at the intersection of visualisation and the digital humanities”.

ColloCaid at IEEE VIS, Digital Humanities workshop, 2018

Jonathan Roberts — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 16:57:07 +0000

We presented a workshop paper at the 3rd Workshop on Visualisation for the Digital Humanities, at the IEEE Visualization conference that took place October 21st to 26th 2018. The paper was titled “Visualisation Approaches for Corpus Linguistics: Towards Visual Integration of Data-Driven Learning”. It was good to speak to over 100 attendees at the conference, and we received many questions and had several interesting discussions from this presentation.