CAT toolA CAT tool is a computer-assisted translation tool. It is software that helps translators maintain consistency in terminology across their translation projects and also aids the translation process by suggesting (or automatically translating) passages (segments) that have already been [...] Read More
clusterClustering is the process of creating groups of words in the thesaurus or word sketch. Words are connected by their shared collocational behaviour. See more on the Clustering Neighbours documentation
collocateis the part of a collocation that is not the node. A collocate is dependent on the node.
The collocate strong and the node wind make up the collocation strongwind
collocationA collocation is a sequence or combination of words that occur together more often than would be expected by chance (from Wikipedia|Collocation) A collocation, e.g. fatal error, typically consists of a node (error) and a collocate (fatal). !--more--The words in a collocation may appear [...] Read More
comparable corpusA comparable corpus is a corpus consisting of texts from the same domain in more languages. In contrast to a parallel corpus, the texts are not translations of each other and belong to the same domain with the same metadata. An example of a comparable corpus is corpus made from Wikipedia.
compileA corpus compilation refers to the processing of the corpus data (text) with the tools in Sketch Engine to prepare the data for searching and analysis.
Here is a list of some actions that happen during compilation:
concordanceis a list of all examples of the search word or phrase found in a corpus, usually in the format of a KWICconcordance with the search word highlighted in the centre of the screen and some context to the right and to the left
see also
KWIC
concordancerA 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
CoNLL formatCoNLL format is a specific format of the vertical file that represents a syntactic parse tree. In comparison with the vertical, there are extra columns describing the syntactic structure of words within the sentence, i.e. id, head, deprel. The number and position of these extra columns may [...] Read More
cooccurrenceCooccurrence or co-occurrence is a term which expresses how often two terms from a corpus occur alongside each other in a certain order. It usually indicates words which together create a new meaning. We call them phraseme or multi-word expression, e.g. black sheep or get on. Sketch Engine [...] Read More
corpusA corpus is a large collection of authentic texts used for studying language or generating linguistic data. Modern corpora contain texts whose total length is billions or dozens of billions of words. A corpus is usually tagged. (= annotated, i.e. the words are labelled with information about [...] Read More
corpus architectis 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.
corpus manageris a program used to manage text corpora, i.e. to build, edit, annotate and search corpora. Sketch Engine is the user interface to the corpus managerManatee.
CQLThe Corpus Query Language is a code used to set criteria for complex searches which cannot be carried out using the standard user interface controls. The criteria may include words or lemmas but also tags and other attributes, text types or structures. Conditions can be set for optional Read More
CSVis a type of plain text document used for saving tabular data. It is seamlessly accepted by a large variety of applications and is therefore ideal for exporting Sketch Engine results to be used in other software. CSV can be opened directly in Microsoft Excel, Open Office, Google Documents and [...] Read More
