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.

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开发写作助手，帮助 EAP 作家实时搭配

语料库已经产生了广泛的词典资源，旨在帮助学术英语的新手用户进行写作。这包括学术词汇表、各种教科书，甚至是定制的学术英语词典。然而，作者可能不熟悉这些资源，或者可能没有充分意识到他们新出现的文本的词汇缺陷，从而触发了首先需要使用这些帮助的必要性。此外，不得不停止写作以查找单词的作家可能会分心，无法将他们的想法写在纸上。ColloCaid 项目 (www.collocaid.uk) 旨在通过将搭配信息与文本编辑器集成来解决这些问题。在本文中，我们分享了支持 ColloCaid 初步开发的研究，详细介绍了 (1) 我们正在编译的词典数据库，以支持学术英语 (EAP) 新手用户的搭配需求，以及 (2) 初步可视化决策在不影响写作的情况下向 EAP 用户呈现搭配信息。我们通过概述研究的后续步骤来结束本文。