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ALLT2112: David Tugwell

What is Sketch Engine? †

• David is the original author of word sketch at Univ. of Brighton

• 42 language corpora so far:
  • 20 billion Russian corpora is the biggest one.
• 65 preloaded corpora
  • Balanced corpora: BNC
  • Specialized corpora: CHILDES, BASE, BAWE
  • Web corpora: de-duplicated, cleaned
    • range of "ten-ten" 10^10=10 billion
• Chinese
  • Chinese GigaWord?, Chinese TaiwanWaC
• Load your own corpora
  • automatic lemmatization, tagging, word sketches
• WebBootCat?
  • low-density languages & subject areas
  • seed collection process
  • results are cleaned and processed in a new corpus

Use of SkE †

• Lexicography
  • Collins, Macmillan, CUP, OUP, Le Robert, Cornelsen Verlag, Shogakukan, Instituut voor Nederlandse
• Language Lerning

WebBootCat? †

• To create seedword list
  • You can try Google translators to insert a list of seed words in English and translate them into the target language