Sketch Engine: News

31 January 2012

BBC Radio 2's Chris Evans and Oxford University Press join forces to explore children's writing - with Sketch Engine as the back-end technology: radio interview here, 19.10 minutes in

30 January 2012

Digital Languages: Using corpora for your research questions, workshop led by Adam Kilgarriff at the University of Sussex
Hindi word sketches now available

16-17 January 2012

Adam Kilgarriff presented the Sketch Engine at University of Heidelberg, Departments of English and of Translation
Featured in Juliette Scott's blog, here

11 January 2012

You can now upload multiple files in an archive when uploading your own corpus to Sketch Engine. See the relevant help page

6 January 2012

An enthusiastic blogger we have come across is Anth of Operative Words. Thank you Silvia Bernardini and Juliette Scott, for both (independently) spotting it
A brand new, web-crawled, 2-billion word Chinese corpus, zhTenTen, is now available

25 November 2011

We fixed a bug in WebBootCaT which caused problems with using the service in Internet Explorer.

11 November 2011

Siva Reddy and Diana McCarthy, both from Lexical Computing Ltd., are co-authors with Ioannis Klapaftis and Suresh Manandhar in a paper that won best paper award at the 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing. The paper is listed in the Sketch Engine Bibliography and uses data from Sketch Engine for modelling the semantics of compound nouns

27 October 2011

An RSS feed for Sketch Engine news is now available at http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/rss.cgi

7 July 2011

Opening of the 2011 LSA Linguistics Institute in Boulder, sponsored by LCL, in Boulder, Colorado. All participants receive one year's Sketch Engine account.
Six 'Brown Family' corpora available in Sketch Engine, supporting comparisons across genre, time and dialect
- original Brown (US 1961), LOB (UK 1961), BLOB (UK, 1931), FLOB (UK, 1991), FROWN (US, 1991), BrE06 (UK, 2006)

1 July

Diana McCarthy, LCL Director and Erasmus Mundi Fellow, visiting Melbourne University for a month.

29 June 2011

Sketch Engine workshop in Taipei, Taiwan, hosted by Bookman Books with speakers Wallace Chen, Jerome Su, Howard Chang

15 June

CHILDES/TalkBank data (parent-child dialogs) available in the Sketch Engine, for multiple languages. 23m words for English.

2 June 2011

The UK National Ecosystem ( http://uknea.unep-wcmc.org/) launches its Synthesis Report with its key findings. Sketch Engine was used for the corpus linguistics analysis. See page 41 of the report which can be obtained here

7 May 2011

GDEX (Good Dictionary EXamples): infrastructure now set up so customers can develop their own GDEX (eg for a different language/publisher/dictionary). Documentation at https://trac.sketchengine.co.uk/wiki/GDEX

30 April 2011

First version of CCBC (Comparable Corpora BootCaT) and bilingual word sketches presented at 'Research Models in Translations Theory' conference, Manchester. Powerpoint here

27 April 2011

Web corpus tools developed by Jan Pomikalek, for his PhD and within PRESEMT, made available:
- jusText, for web page cleaning including removing boilerplate, http://code.google.com/p/justext/
- Onion, for deduplication, http://code.google.com/p/onion/

25 April 2011

First version of bilingual word sketches prepared

15 April 2011

Polish word sketches available

30 March 2011

First version of Bulgarian word sketches available; SkE going into use at the Institute for the Bulgarian Language, Sofia

22 March 2011

New front pages (including this news page) go live

17 March 2011

New improved wordlist functionality and sketch diffs by subcorpus available on beta

16-17 March 2011

SKEW-2; 2nd International Sketch Engine Workshop has been held in Brighton

11 March 2011

we now own our own servers (as well as renting some) and shall be shifting services to the owned servers
Users can now upload their own aligned, parallel corpora within Corpus Architect

11 March 2011

paper to appear in Corpus Linguistics 2011 on our work on CLAEVIPS: A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of Ecosystems Vocabulary in the Public Sphere. Commissioned by the UK National Ecosystem Assessment
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