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Sketch Engine

Sketch Engine is a corpus manager and text analysis software developed by Lexical Computing since 2003. Its purpose is to enable people studying language behaviour (lexicographers, researchers in corpus linguistics, translators or language learners) to search large text collections according to complex and linguistically motivated queries. Sketch Engine…

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Available in
15 languages
Developer
Lexical Computing CZ s.r.o.
License
Proprietary software; both commercial and freeware editions are available
Operating system
Linux, Mac OS X
Original authors
Adam Kilgarriff, Pavel Rychlý
Platform
IA-32, x64 or IA-64

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Sketch Engine

Nodes62
Edges61
Triples84
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.032258
Components1

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Sketch Engine

Top relations

related to SKELL · 13
Sketch Engine → Czech, English, Estonian, GDEX, German, Good Dictionary Examples, It, Italian, Later, Results, Russian, SKELL, Sketch Engine's
related to history · 12
Sketch Engine → Adam Kilgarriff, Bonito, GPL, He, Kilgarriff, Lexical Computing, Manatee, Masaryk University, Natural Language Processing Centre, NoSketch Engine, Pavel Rychlý, Since
related to List of text corpora · 11
Sketch Engine → British National Corpus, Brown Corpus, Cambridge Academic English Corpus, Cambridge Learner Corpus, CHILDES, EUR-Lex, OpenSubtitles, TenTen Corpus Family, The, There, Trends
related to Features · 9
Sketch Engine → Corpus, Diachronic, EUR-Lex, Europarl, Keyword, OPUS, Trends, Web, Word
related to Further reading · 8
Sketch Engine → Brno, Discovering English, ISBN, James, March, Thomas, Versatile, Workbook
has application · 7
Sketch Engine → British, Dictionnaires Le Robert, Four, Macmillan English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, Shogakukan, United Kingdom's
related to Keywords and terminology extraction · 4
Sketch Engine → OneClick Terms, Single, The, This
related to Architecture · 3
Sketch Engine → Bonito, Corpus Architect, Manatee
related to External links · 2
Sketch Engine → Sketch EngineOneClick, Sketch EngineSKELL
Available in · 1
Sketch Engine → 15 languages

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sketch corpus engine corpora text language manatee word list web software english skell bonito words lexical computing python features available

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Sketch EngineAvailable in15 languages1.00infobox
Sketch EngineDeveloperLexical Computing CZ s.r.o.1.00infobox
Sketch EngineLicenseProprietary software; both commercial and freeware editions are available1.00infobox
Sketch EngineOperating systemLinux, Mac OS X1.00infobox
Sketch EngineOriginal authorsAdam Kilgarriff, Pavel Rychlý1.00infobox
Sketch EnginePlatformIA-32, x64 or IA-641.00infobox
Sketch EngineRelease23 July 2003; 23 years ago (2003-07-23)1.00infobox
Sketch EngineStandardUnicode1.00infobox
Sketch EngineTypeCorpus manager for 100+ languages, database management system1.00infobox
Sketch EngineWebsitewww.sketchengine.eu1.00infobox
Sketch EngineWritten inGo, JavaScript, jQuery, C++, Python1.00infobox
Sketch Engineis acorpus manager and text analysis software developed by Lexical Computing since 20030.90text

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