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SketchEngine LLAS E-Symp Presentation

The Sketch Engine is a corpus query tool that allows users to analyze large bodies of text called corpora in order to better understand language patterns and collocations. It contains over 200 corpora in 60+ languages that can be searched to see how words are used across different registers. The document demonstrates how the tool can be used to investigate the various meanings and uses of the word "enjoy" through its concordance, word sketch, and other features. Public corpora are available for many languages, and users can also build their own custom corpora through WebBootCaT to analyze language related to specific topics or assignments.

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SketchEngine LLAS E-Symp Presentation

The Sketch Engine is a corpus query tool that allows users to analyze large bodies of text called corpora in order to better understand language patterns and collocations. It contains over 200 corpora in 60+ languages that can be searched to see how words are used across different registers. The document demonstrates how the tool can be used to investigate the various meanings and uses of the word "enjoy" through its concordance, word sketch, and other features. Public corpora are available for many languages, and users can also build their own custom corpora through WebBootCaT to analyze language related to specific topics or assignments.

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The Sketch Engine

www.sketchengine.co.uk

Today
-What is The Sketch Engine?
-What is a corpus?
-Looking at the BASE and the BAWE corpora.
-How can this help you with ELT?

What is The Sketch Engine?


A language tool for anyone interested in how words behave

-A corpus query tool


-Can reveal language grammar patterns
-Web based
-200+ corpora in 60+ languages
-Easy to use

What is The Sketch Engine?


- Used for lexicography at: OUP, CUP,
Collins, Macmillan

What is a corpus?
-Corpus: Latin word body (Plural corpora)
-Large, computer searchable bodies of language.
-BASE: British Academic Spoken English
-BAWE: British Academic Written English
-Target varieties
-Advanced learners
-Hilary Nesi and Paul Thompson

How can this help you with ELT?


-Sketch Engine in action
-Concordancer, Word Sketch, Sketch Diff
-Thesaurus Automatic collocations dictionary
forbetterenglish.com
-WebBootCaT

Lets investigate
- How does the English word enjoy behave?
What meaning(s)?
Grammar?
Collocations?

Findings
- 3 million hits
Plenty of evidence

- Lemmatised
enjoy enjoys enjoying enjoyed

- Start with a sample

Getting more out of our corpus


- Sort
on right context

Any patterns?
- Recurring themes
Do you spot any?
Same concordance again:

What do we enjoy?
- breakfast, dining, snack
- Object is often meal
- Scroll on down, looking for more patterns
- To see more context, click on word
What is a furry friend?

Too much data?


- So much data to look through
- Can the computer help?
yes

Grammar
- We can cluster the objects

Enjoy
- Views, benefits, meals, rides
Good summary of the things we enjoy

- Scrolling down

Patterns
- ing_comp
Strong pattern for enjoy
click on any item in Word Sketch to get more information
ing_comp: hike

Thesaurus
- Distributional Thesaurus
- Which word shares most collocates with target
word?
- What will come top for grandfather?

Sketch Diff
Verbs they are subject of (middle column)
What grandmothers do
What they both do
What grandfathers do

What corpora?
- Public ones
- Your own

Public corpora
- Many languages
Show # more corpora button
220+ corpora
60+ languages

Your own corpora


- WebBootCaT: a corpus building tool
- Students can work on a topic close to their
hearts
- interests, an assignment
- www.sketchengine.co.uk

Thank you.
www.sketchengine.co.uk
90 day free trial
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Facebook.com/SketchEngine
Twitter.com/SketchEngine
YouTube.com/TheSketchEngine
[email protected]

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