Sketch Engine

Lexical Computing's Sketch Engine is above all a concordancing program. The SkE is a new Corpus Query System incorporating word sketches, grammatical relations, and a distributional thesaurus.

Register here to use the sample data, which includes the British National Corpus and other corpora in a variety of languages. You may use the website at no cost for demonstration, research and teaching purposes only. Wordsketches is an online resource that automates some of the findings of both concordance and collocation searches. It provides statistical data about how a word combines with both lexical and grammar words, from where you can see concordances of specific combinations. It was conceived by Adam Kilgarriff and created by Pavel Rychlý.

Registration includes access to WebBootCat, a user-friendly, web-based tool for building corpora instantly from publicly accessible documents on the web. It is particularly useful for small, short term projects such as translating and preparing topic-based teaching material. The corpora you create are then searchable via the Word Sketch Engine.

See the Sketch Engine in Practice for some examples of how the various search windows and data summaries can be used.

See Using Corpus Query Language for complex searches

Click here for information and examples about using Corpus Query Language with the BNC.