Publication detail

The Sketch Engine

KILGARRIFF, A. RYCHLÝ, P. SMRŽ, P. TUGWELL, D.

Original Title

The Sketch Engine

Type

book chapter

Language

English

Original Abstract

The chapter deals with word sketches - one-page automatic, corpus-based summaries of a word's grammatical and collocational behaviour.  They were first used in the production of the Macmillan English Dictionary and were presented at Euralex 2002.  At that point, they only existed for English.  Now, we have developed the Sketch Engine, a corpus tool which takes as input a corpus of any language and a corresponding grammar patterns and which generates word sketches for the words of that language.  It also generates a thesaurus and 'sketch differences', which specify similarities and differences between near-synonyms. We briefly present a case study investigating applicability of the Sketch Engine to free word-order languages. The results show that word sketches could facilitate lexicographic work in Czech as they have for English.

Keywords

lexicography, grammar patterns

Authors

KILGARRIFF, A.; RYCHLÝ, P.; SMRŽ, P.; TUGWELL, D.

RIV year

2008

Released

7. 2. 2008

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Location

Oxford

ISBN

978-0-19-929234-9

Book

Practical Lexicography: A Reader

Pages from

297

Pages to

306

Pages count

10

BibTex

@inbook{BUT55565,
  author="Adam {Kilgarriff} and Pavel {Rychlý} and Pavel {Smrž} and David {Tugwell}",
  title="The Sketch Engine",
  booktitle="Practical Lexicography: A Reader",
  year="2008",
  publisher="Oxford University Press",
  address="Oxford",
  pages="297--306",
  isbn="978-0-19-929234-9"
}