Author: David Dixon

ColloCaid at The University of Manchester

On Thursday the 15th of November, ColloCaid Principal Investigator Ana Frankenberg-Garcia gave a seminar talk at the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies at the University of Manchester. Her talk explained the research on dictionary use, computational lexicography, human-computer interaction and visualization underlying ColloCaid, and reported on results from initial user testing. At the end Read more about ColloCaid at The University of Manchester[…]

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ColloCaid at Universidade Europeia

Ana Frankenberg-Garcia gave an invited seminar at the Universidade Europeia Doctoral College in Lisbon, on Friday 21 June. She talked about the evolution of dictionaries and the benefits of integrating dictionaries and text editors. Participants were given the opportunity to try out a beta version of the ColloCaid text editor on their own devices.

ColloCaid at Universidade de São Paulo

On Monday the 15th of April ColloCaid principal investigator Ana Frankenberg-Garcia gave a talk at the Departamento de Letras Modernas Universidade de São Paulo entitled: Novas ferramentas lexicográficas: um editor de textos que auxilia no emprego de colocações em textos acadêmicos/ New lexicographic tools: a text editor that assists in the use of collocations in Read more about ColloCaid at Universidade de São Paulo[…]

ColloCaid at 28th Society for Editors and Proofreaders Conference

Collocaid investigator Ana Frankenberg-Garcia presented the seminar “Corpora for Editors” at the 28th Society for Editors and Proofreaders Conference, Wyboston Lakes, 16-18 September 2017. A considerable share of editing and proofreading work is devoted to polishing academic papers, dissertations and theses. Editors and proofreaders can contribute to the development of ColloCaid  by reporting the miscollocations Read more about ColloCaid at 28th Society for Editors and Proofreaders Conference[…]