Introducing Sketch Engine

This session provides an introduction to the main functions of Sketch Engine, a corpus manager and text analysis software that allows those studying language behavior, for example lexicographers, translators and language learners, to search corpora using linguistically motivated queries. For non-native speakers of English it represents a useful way of moving beyond the circumscribed information present in dictionaries. The spotlight will be on Simple Query, Lemma Query, Phrase Query and Word Query in order to present the advantages and disadvantages of Sketch Engine, a sophisticated tool which requires not only know-how but also a degree of caution if it is to be adopted successfully.