seminars – ColloCaid

ColloCaid at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”

Geraint — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 10:01:56 +0000

On Monday 25 October 2021, at 10:30 am (GMT+2), ColloCaid co-investigator Professor Robert Lew will be giving a talk about ColloCaid at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” (the Orientale University). The talk will be available via Microsoft Teams. Uniori members can get a link to the talk by filling out this form https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg.

ColloCaid at The University of Manchester

Geraint — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 20:01:22 +0000

On Thursday the 15^th 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 of the presentation, there was an opportunity for the audience to try out a beta version of ColloCaid. More information can be found here.

ColloCaid at Universidade Europeia

Geraint — Sat, 22 Jun 2019 17:22:17 +0000

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

Geraint — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 15:24:15 +0000

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 […]

ColloCaid at 28th Society for Editors and Proofreaders Conference

Geraint — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 10:44:48 +0000

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 they come across with in their day-to-day work. ColloCaid will help editors and proofreaders detect collocation problems in the texts they revise and supply better collocation solutions.