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

Tools to work with Maori text corpora

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

Maori 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 Maori
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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Maori term extraction

Terminology extraction is a feature of Sketch Engine which automatically
identifies single-word and multi-word terms in a subject-specific Maori text by comparing
it to a general Maori 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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Maori 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 Maori 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 Maori

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 Maori
that cannot be detected by other tools. more»

List of available Maori 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
Maori Web 2013 and 2020 (miTenTen20) trial 11,814,825