Sketch Engine
The Sketch Engine (SkE, also known as Word Sketch Engine) is a Corpus Query System incorporating word sketches, grammatical relations, and a distributional thesaurus.
A word sketch is a one-page, automatic, corpus-derived summary of a word’s grammatical and collocational behaviour.
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A Sketch Engine account gives you
- Pre-loaded corpora (60M-2B words) for
- Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Slovene
- Other languages to follow
- WebBootCaT
- Build your own instant corpus
- Extract keywords
- Specialist terminology, any language
- CorpusBuilder
- Upload and install your own corpora
Web service using standard browsers. No software installation required.
Users
The SkE is designed for anyone wanting to research how words behave.
- Word Sketches were first used in the Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners (2002, Edited by Michael Rundell).
- Word Sketches have been used as the starting point for high-accuracy Word Sense Disambiguation.
- The SkE is in use for lexicography at Oxford University Press, FrameNet, Collins, Chambers Harrap, Macmillan and elsewhere
- It is in use for teaching and research at universities and research laboratories in Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain, Taiwan, US and UK
People
- Adam Kilgarriff, Pavel Rychlý, Jan Pomikálek
Papers
- The SkE is described here (published: Proc EURALEX 2004, Lorient, France).
- WebBootCaT is described here (published: Proc EAMT 2006, Oslo, Norway).
Documentation
Prices
Prices for academic licences available here. For commercial licensing please contact inquiries@sketchengine.co.uk.
The Sketch Engine is a product of Lexical Computing Ltd., Director: Adam Kilgarriff. Lexical Computing Ltd also offers consultancy and corpus-development services. Please email for details.
Related company specialising in lexicography and lexicographic training: The Lexicography MasterClass.