Czech is one of the many languages whose text corpora are included in Sketch Engine, a tool
for discovering how language works. Sketch Engine is designed for linguists, lexicologists,
lexicographers, researchers, translators, terminologists, teachers and students working with
Czech to easily discover what is typical and frequent in the language and to notice
phenomena which would go unnoticed without a large sample of Czech text.
Sketch Engine has tools to identify and analyse collocations, synonyms and antonyms, examples of
use in context, keywords or terms. Frequency word lists of Czech single-word or multi-word
expressions of various types can be generated. Even users without any technical knowledge can
create their own Czech corpus using the Sketch Engine's intuitive built-in tool.
Tools to work with Czech text corpora
To work with the Czech language, Sketch Engine offers the following tools:
Czech Word Sketch
Word Sketch is the easiest way to get an at-a-glance overview of a
word’s behaviour. Collocations are displayed in categorized lists to identify strong and weak
collocates easily. more»
Available Word Sketches for user corpora:
Full-featured Sketch grammar.
Word Sketch difference will compare two word sketches and will indicate
which collocates tend to combine with one word or the other. The information can be used to avoid
mistakes in word choice or to study the differences between two words with a similar meaning.
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Czech concordance
The concordancer included in Sketch Engine can be used to display a list
of examples (called concordance) of the search word or phrase as it appears in Czech
language text corpora. The search will display the keyword with some context to the right and
context to the left of the keyword (KWIC concordance).
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Czech term extraction
Terminology extraction is a feature of Sketch Engine which automatically
identifies single-word and multi-word terms in a subject-specific Czech text by comparing
it to a general Czech corpus. The tool is aimed at translators, terminologists, ESP teachers
and anyone who needs to deal with domain texts. The screen with results includes links to example
sentences and Wikipedia definitions.
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Bilingual term extraction
Parallel corpora are used to extract terms in two languages
simultaneously and display a terminology list with translations into the other language.
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Czech thesaurus
The thesaurus is a feature that automatically generates a list of
words similar in meaning to the keyword.
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Czech word lists
The word list feature will generate a frequency list of all words that
appear in a text or corpus. A very large corpus can be used to generate a list of all words that
exist in Czech or all words that start, contain or end with specific characters. Advanced
options can be used to generate lists of grammatical categories or parts of speech used in a corpus
together with their frequencies. more»
N-grams in Czech
Generating a list of N-grams contained in a text makes it possible to
identify and study patterns and notice phenomena related to multi-word units (MWU) in Czech
that cannot be detected by other tools. more»
List of available Czech corpora
- trial – available to both trial users as well as paying subscribers
- main – only available to paying subscribers
- on demand – access to the corpus is subject to specific terms, click the
corpus name for details
