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

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.

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”.

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.