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ColloCaid: A Real-time Tool to Help Academic Writers with English Collocations

Published on Jul 27, 2018770 Views

Writing is a cognitively challenging activity that can benefit from lexicographic support. Academic writing in English presents a particular challenge, given the extent of use of English for this purp

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ColloCaid: A real-time tool to help academic writers with English collocations00:00
Away from static dictionaries00:03
Collocation (for Academic English)00:36
EXISTING RESOURCES FOR COLLOCATION: DICTIONARIES01:51
LDOCE Collocation box02:05
Collocation Dictionaries02:25
Macmillan Collocations Dictionary02:33
EXISTING RESOURCES: CORPORA02:40
SkELL (Baisa & Suchomel 2014) - 102:50
SkELL (Baisa & Suchomel 2014) - 203:09
flax - 103:22
flax - 203:49
Limitations04:15
WRITING ASSISTANTS06:06
MS Word06:16
Cambridge English Write & Improve06:51
Grammarly07:17
WriteAway07:29
Existing writing assistants: problems08:09
OUR SOLUTION08:40
An alternative solution09:01
Our set of collocate bases (nodes)09:47
At least two out of three lists: 512 nodes11:20
512 nodes selected11:35
Oxford Corpus of Academic English in the Sketch Engine12:18
Adding collocates and examples12:28
Excerpt from the database14:01
Example scenarios - 114:19
Example scenarios - 214:45
Example scenarios - 315:15
First prototype implementation15:31
PROTOTYPE DEMO15:48
How will ColloCaid be different?19:33
The ColloCaid team20:50