ERIC Number: EJ1202528
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Publication Date: 2019-Jan
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Developing a Writing Assistant to Help EAP Writers with Collocations in Real Time
ReCALL, v31 n1 p23-39 Jan 2019
Corpora have given rise to a wide range of lexicographic resources aimed at helping novice users of academic English with their writing. This includes academic vocabulary lists, a variety of textbooks, and even a bespoke academic English dictionary. However, writers may not be familiar with these resources or may not be sufficiently aware of the lexical shortcomings of their emerging texts to trigger the need to use such help in the first place. Moreover, writers who have to stop writing to look up a word can be distracted from getting their ideas down on paper. The ColloCaid project (www.collocaid.uk) aims to address these problems by integrating information on collocation with text editors. In this paper, we share the research underpinning the initial development of ColloCaid by detailing the rationale of (1) the lexicographic database we are compiling to support the collocation needs of novice users of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and (2) the preliminary visualisation decisions taken to present information on collocation to EAP users without disrupting their writing. We conclude the paper by outlining the next steps in the research.
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English for Academic Purposes, Lexicography, Writing Instruction, Dictionaries, Phrase Structure, Editing, Databases, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Visualization, Writing (Composition), Word Lists, Decision Making
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