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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Sketch Engine beta

A Sketch Engine account gives you

Web service using standard browsers. No software installation required.

Users

The SkE is designed for anyone wanting to research how words behave.

People

Papers

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.