The Sketch Engine www.sketchengine.co.uk. -What is The Sketch Engine? -What is a corpus? -Looking at the BASE and the BAWE corpora. -How can this help.

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The Sketch Engine

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

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 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

-Sketch Engine in action… -Concordancer, Word Sketch, Sketch Diff -Thesaurus “Automatic collocations dictionary” forbetterenglish.com -WebBootCaT How can this help you with ELT?

Let’s 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 -

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