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SUMMARY:Developing a Text Editor to Help Writers with Academic English Col
 locations - Dr. Ana Frankenberg-Garcia\,  Centre of Translation Studies\, 
 University of Surrey
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DESCRIPTION:It is widely acknowledged that writers less accustomed to the 
 academic register may struggle to employ collocations which more experienc
 ed academic writers habitually use. Collocations such as BASED ON AN ASSUM
 PTION\, PROPOSE AN ALTERNATIVE\, STANDARD METHOD\, SUCCESSFULLY ACHIEVE or
  WIDELY ACCEPTED\, for instance\, are typical of written academic English.
  Despite the existence of excellent resources that can be consulted to loo
 k up academic English collocations such as these – for example\, diction
 aries\, corpora and certain online tools – writers may not know where or
  how to look up collocations\, or they may simply not be aware that their 
 lexical choices could improve. Another problem is that looking up collocat
 ions during cognitively-demanding tasks like writing essays or research pa
 pers can interrupt writers’ thought processes and hamper their ability t
 o get meanings across.\nIn response to the above challenges\, we are devel
 oping ColloCaid\, a text editor that assists writers with academic English
  collocations. By providing collocation prompts and suggestions in real ti
 me or for earlier drafts\, we aim to help users of academic English convey
  their intended meanings more successfully\, enhance the vocabulary and fl
 uency of their emerging texts\, and expand their overall collocation reper
 toire.\nIn this seminar\, I will demonstrate how ColloCaid works\, explain
  the research on dictionary use\, computational lexicography\, human-compu
 ter interaction and visualization underlying it\, and report on results fr
 om initial user testing. \nAt the end of the presentation\, there will be 
 an opportunity to try out a beta version of ColloCaid (if interested\, bri
 ng a laptop\; no software installation is required).\n\nAcknowledgements\n
 The ColloCaid project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Counci
 l (AHRC)\, ref. AH/P003508/1. \n\nBionote\nANA FRANKENBERG-GARCIA (PhD in 
 Applied Linguistics\, Edinburgh) is Reader in Translation Studies and Prog
 ramme Leader of the MA in Translation at the University of Surrey. Her res
 earch focuses on applied uses of corpora in translation\, lexicography and
  assisted writing. Ana is Principal Investigator of the ColloCaid project.
  She was also Project Leader of the COMPARA parallel corpus\, Chief Editor
  of the bilingual Oxford Portuguese Dictionary\, and Lead Researcher in th
 e Supporting the Internationalization of Brazilian Research project. \n
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