The Sketch Engine (SkE) is designed for anyone wanting to research how words behave. It is a Corpus Query System incorporating word sketches, one-page, automatic, corpus-derived summary of a word’s grammatical and collocational behaviour.

A Sketch Engine account gives you

• Access to large corpora (30M-10B words) for 42 languages
  • More languages to follow
• WebBootCaT
  • Build your own instant corpus
  • Extract keywords
  • Specialist terminology, any language
• Corpus building
  • Upload and install your own corpora

Web service using standard browsers. No software installation required.

Users

• Word Sketches were first used in the  Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners (2002, 2007)
• The SkE is in daily use for lexicography at Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Collins, Le Robert and Cornelsen Verlag, among others
• It is in use for teaching and research at universities and research laboratories around the world

The Sketch Engine is a product of Lexical Computing Ltd. Lexical Computing Ltd offers a range of corpus-related services