In this paper I will give you a brief overview of Sketch Engine’s core functions, tell you details about its development, the people who originally had the idea to create it and about the free corpus-based web tool “SkeLL”.
Sketch Engine is a software for text analysis, database management and corpus management for over 90 languages developed by Lexical Computing Limited and released in 2003. It is a great tool for linguists, lexicographers, translators, students, and teachers to understand how language works. By using Sketch Engine you are able to instantly identify the characteristics of the language, what is rare or unusual and what is increasingly used. This is possible due to its algorithms which can analyse authentical texts with billions of words. The software’s functions enable users to precisely search and filter queries in language corpora and said functions are based on mathematical and statistical computations.
Inhaltsverzeichnis (Table of Contents)
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Development
- 2.1 Lexical Computing Limited.
- 2.2 Developers: Adam Kilgarriff & Pavel Rychlý.
- 3. Features
- 3.1 Word Sketch
- 3.2 Word Sketch Difference
- 3.3 Thesaurus
- 3.4 Corpus Building
- 3.5 Key Word and Term Extraction
- 3.6 Concordance
- 3.7 Translation Search
- 3.8 Frequence Word Lists
- 4. SKELL
- 5. Bibliography
Zielsetzung und Themenschwerpunkte (Objectives and Key Themes)
This paper provides a comprehensive overview of Sketch Engine, a software for text analysis and corpus management. The paper explores the development of the software, its core functionalities, and its use by various institutions and individuals. The goal is to understand the capabilities of Sketch Engine as a tool for linguists, lexicographers, translators, students, and teachers.
- Development of Sketch Engine
- Key Features of Sketch Engine
- Applications of Sketch Engine
- Significance of Corpus Linguistics
- The Role of Lexical Computing Limited
Zusammenfassung der Kapitel (Chapter Summaries)
- Introduction: This chapter introduces Sketch Engine as a software for text analysis and corpus management, highlighting its features and capabilities for understanding language.
- Development: This chapter details the history of Sketch Engine, focusing on its origin at Lexical Computing Limited and the contributions of Adam Kilgarriff and Pavel Rychlý. It explores the company's role in providing language data and its focus on high-quality word databases.
Schlüsselwörter (Keywords)
This paper focuses on the software Sketch Engine, its core functionalities, development, and applications in corpus linguistics, lexicography, and language analysis. Key terms include text analysis, corpus management, lexical computing, word sketches, concordance, translation search, and the role of language data in research and teaching.
- Quote paper
- Jennifer Berndt (Author), 2019, Sketch Engine by Adam Kilgarriff. An analysis of its core functions and development, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/509432
