Roberts, Jonathan C.Butcher, Peter W. S.Lew, RobertRees, Geraint PaulSharma, NirwanFrankenberg-Garcia, Ana2025-05-152025-05-152021Roberts JC, Butcher PWS, Lew R, Rees GP, Sharma N, Frankenberg-Garcia A. Developing ColloCaid: a visualization and text-editing tool to help writers with collocations. In: Prys D, editor. Language and technology in Wales: Volume I. Bangor: Bangor University; 2021. p. 43-55.9781842201886http://hdl.handle.net/10230/70402We have developed the ColloCaid text editor, a writing assistant that suggests natural collocations for words as the users type them. The tool also visualizes words to clarify word associations and presents alternative words. Developing a visualization tool and editor involves many choices, challenges, and decisions during the design, development, and evaluation of the tool. Being a collaborative project, ColloCaid has brought together researchers with different skills, backgrounds, and work styles. In this chapter, we discuss our development cycle when creating the ColloCaid tool, from the selection of the reference text corpus data to designing and developing appropriate word visualizations. Our account can be of interest to other researchers, offering insights on the development of interactive linguistic tools that incorporate visualizations.application/pdfengThe text has been released under the Creative Commons BY 4.0 licenseinfo:eu-repo/semantics/bookPartVisualizationLinguisticsCorpus linguisticsClose writinginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess