Hindi 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
Hindi to easily discover what is typical and frequent in the language and to notice
phenomena which would go unnoticed without a large sample of Hindi 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 Hindi single-word or multi-word
expressions of various types can be generated. Even users without any technical knowledge can
create their own Hindi corpus using the Sketch Engine's intuitive built-in tool.

Tools to work with Hindi text corpora

To work with the Hindi language, Sketch Engine offers the following tools:

Hindi 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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Hindi 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 Hindi
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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Hindi thesaurus

The thesaurus is a feature that automatically generates a list of
words similar in meaning to the keyword.
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Hindi 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 Hindi 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 Hindi

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 Hindi
that cannot be detected by other tools. more»

List of available Hindi 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
Corpus Access policy Size in words
Hindi Web 2012 (HindiWaC v. 4) trial 107,960,109
Hindi Web 2013 (hiTenTen13) main 351,289,441
Hindi Web 2017 (hiTenTen17) main 1,228,379,747
Hindi Web 2021 (hiTenTen21) trial 792,395,313
Open Parallel Corpus (OPUS) – Hindi main 854,741
OpenSubtitles 2018 parallel – Hindi main 675,322