presentations – 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

ColloCaid at the “Incorporating Corpora in Teaching” Symposium

Geraint — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 08:38:20 +0000

On Friday 23 October, Ana Frankenberg- Garcia gave a presentation at the symposium on “Incorporating Corpora in Teaching” organized by the Mid-Sweden University. She talked about the potential of ColloCaid as a Data-driven Learning (DDL) tool which can help writers with academic collocations without the need for corpus training or teacher intervention.

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 TaLC 2020

Geraint — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 15:54:21 +0000

Ana Frankenberg-Garcia and colleagues have a paper at the TaLC 2020 conference which is taking place online this year. This paper reports on a series academic English writing workshops that encouraged researchers and English tutors in Brazil to work collaboratively with corpus tools and resources. This collaborative approach is particularly important in the Brazilian context since tutors teaching academic English have little or no experience of high-level research writing, let alone of the specialist subjects of the researchers who seek their assistance. Corpus tools and resources are a means of bridging this gap.

ColloCaid at EUROCALL2019

Geraint — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 14:34:06 +0000

On Thursday 29^th of August, Ana Frankenberg-Garcia presented ColloCaid at the 27th EUROCALL conference hosted by UCLouvain in collaboration with KU Leuven, in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. The first part of the presentation focused on the compilation of the lexicographic database underlying ColloCaid using existing academic word lists, corpora and lexical analysis software. It then explained how collocation cues were integrated with a text editor on the basis of previous research on writing and dictionary use. The presentation concluded with a demo of an open-access prototype of the tool.

ColloCaid at EuroVis2019

Geraint — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 13:02:06 +0000

On Wednesday 5th of June, Jonathan Roberts reported on a study at the 21st edition of the EuroVis conference in Porto, Portugal. The study, presented as the paper “Multiple Views: different meanings and collocated words“, examined the terminology and phraseology of using ‘multiple views’, ‘many presentations’ and ‘alternative visual depictions’ in the area of visualisation. This research offers insights into how people use these words, and makes recommendations for their use. It is hoped that the resulting framework of ideas and words will prove useful as a resource for building close writing tools for authoring multiple view texts, and a reference for novice and expert authors in visualisation.

The beautiful city of Porto hosted the 21st edition of EuroVis (which was organised by the GPCG, the Portuguese chapter of Eurographics, in association with INESC-ID Lisboa and INESC-TEC). The EuroVis conference runs annually and is organised by the Eurographics Working Group on Data Visualization and is supported by the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (IEEE VGTC).

A Hands-on ColloCaid Demo at Université Paris Diderot

Geraint — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 19:34:03 +0000

ColloCaid Principal Investigator Ana Frankenberg-Garcia gave a talk at the CLILLAC-ARP research group seminar on Monday 25 March 2019. After a short talk about the ColloCaid project participants were given the opportunity to try out a beta version of the tool. An abstract of the session can be found here.

ColloCaid at the Specialised Discourse and Multimedia Conference

Geraint — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 19:11:33 +0000

In February of 2019 ColloCaid Principal Investigator Ana Frankenberg-Garcia gave a plenary talk entitled Integrating dictionary and text-editor architectures to help writers with academic English collocations at the Specialised Discourse and Multimedia conference at the University of Salento in Lecce, Italy. She began by giving an overview of how pedagogical dictionaries have evolved, and of some of the obstacles in the way of getting writers to become better users of lexicographic tools and resources. She then presented the ColloCaid project explaining the rationale underlying its lexicographic coverage and data visualisation decisions, and giving a demo of the prototype.

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.