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  • a list of all examples of the search word or phrase found in a corpus, usually in the format of a KWIC concordance with the search word highlighted in the centre of the screen and some context to the right and to the left see also KWIC
  • A concordancer is a tool (a piece of software) which searches a text corpus and displays a concordance. A concordancer is one of the features in Sketch Engine which allows for simple corpus searches as well as queries involving complex criteria that search for grammatical or lexical [...] Read More
  • an intuitive tool inside Sketch Engine for creating corpora from documents or the Web which does not require any expert knowledge. See the create your own corpus page.
  • an automatically produced thesaurus which identifies words that occur in similar contexts as the target word. It draws on the theory of distributional semantics.!--more--The automatically produced thesaurus is available for each word in the corpus. more about automatic thesaurus The [...] Read More
  • Good Dictionary Examples is a technology in Sketch Engine which can identify automatically sentences which are suitable as dictionary example sentences or as teaching examples, i.e. are illustrative and representative. The GDEX can be applied on any concordance. It will sort the lines and [...] Read More
  • application in Sketch Engine for collecting usage-example sentences to build dictionaries. Find more on the Tick Box Lexicography page
  • the process of identifying subject specific vocabulary in a subject specific text usually using specialized software. The identification of one-word and multi-word terms in Sketch Engine is based on the comparison of the frequency of such words and phrases between the reference corpus and the [...] Read More
  • The timeline function displays the changing frequency of a word or phrase over time. Timelines are not a standalone tool, they are included in the Concordance and Wordlist tools. Timelines are computed the same as the graphs in Trends – a diachronic analysis of word usage, however, they can [...] Read More
  • Trends is a feature used for diachronic analysis, i.e. for identifying how the frequency of the word (or other attributes) changes over time. read more
  • The word sketch is a tool to display collocations (=word combinations) in a compact, easy-to-understand way. The word sketch makes it easy to understand how a word behaves, which contexts it typically appears in and which words it can be used together. The word sketch can typically display [...] Read More