On September 30^th, at the pre-conference workshop on Collocations in Lexicography, we presented a paper about lessons from Human Computer Interaction (HCI) research for the presentation of collocations in e-lexicography. We drew heavily on examples from the development of ColloCaid to show how concepts and techniques from HCI could be usefully applied to the presentation of collocations in electronic resources.

On Tuesday 1^st October we presented the paper: Slipping through the cracks of e-lexicography: lessons from ColloCaid which summarised the great benefits e-lexicographic techniques brought in the development of ColloCaid and as well as the potential pitfalls of their uncritical use (video).

On Wednesday 2^nd we gave hands of demo of prototype version 0.4 of ColloCaid.

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, and scientific and information visualization. The event brings together top data visualization researchers and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to explore their shared interests in tools, techniques, and technology.

The ColloCaid team at eLex 2017

Presenting best practices

Members of the ColloCaid team will be presenting at the fifth biennial conference on electronic lexicography, eLex 2017, in Leiden, the Netherlands, 19-21 September 2017. The theme of the conference is electronic lexicography in the 21st Century. In keeping with this theme, we will be presenting our corpus-based project which aims to make lexicographical information more accessible to writers in digital writing environments. Through our interactive poster, we aim to debate which learner corpora could be used to identify difficulties in the use of academic collocations, what academic English corpus or corpora to set as a target, and how to navigate corpora to harness information about collocations. In addition, we would like to discuss elicitation procedures that could be used to gather complementary data. Finally, we invite feedback on how much information to provide users, and how this information can be best integrated with text editors.

Ana Frankenberg-Garcia, Robert Lew, Jonathan Roberts, Geraint Rees and Javier Pereda: Best practices in combining learner needs, lexicographic data and text editors to help learners write more idiomatically