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Sketch Engine
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Sketch Engine is a linguistic search engine and corpus query system with text analysis tools and corpora in 100+ languages. Concordance, n-grams, term extraction, co-occurrences (Word Sketch) are only some of its features.
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Compare all your favorite Christmas treats in one go. Use the "From this list" feature in the Wordlist tool to analyze the whole dessert table simultaneously: ske.li/banf
#wordlist
December 8, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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With the English Trends corpus, you can compare the most prominent topics of each month. See what we typically talk about in December: ske.li/ban0
#trendingwords #trendingtopics
December 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Translated into over 300 languages, Silent Night is one of the most famous carols. Check out its #translations to other languages in the parallel concordance: ske.li/065
#paralleltexts
December 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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What sets Christmas apart from other holidays? Find unique collocations for each of them in the Word Sketch Difference tool: ske.li/babp
December 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Word Sketches can also be generated for multi-word expressions. Find the strongest collocations for “Christmas tree” at ske.li/06v
#collocation
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December 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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While we can't find two identical snowflakes, you can find words similar to "snowflake" when we look in a thesaurus: ske.li/06s
#thesaurus #similarwords
December 3, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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No existing corpus that fits your niche research topic? Build your own corpus! With seed words, the corpus theme might be anything – even Christmas. www.sketchengine.eu/guide/create...
#textdata #textcorpus
December 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Our Advent 2025 series starts today!🎇
See how often snow appeared in past years with the Timeline tool in our Trends corpora: ske.li/06x

More small insights with Sketch Engine coming soon.
#corpuslinguistics #languagedata
December 1, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Sketch Engine in −2 °C air and +11 °C water. Still working 😉A good memory of our eLex 2025 days in Bled 🇸🇮
Photo by Madis Jürviste, the Institute of the Estonian Language.
Sketch Engine towel on the shore of Lake Bled, Slovenia.
November 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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It was a pleasure to meet friends, users and the wider lexicographic community. Thanks for visiting our booth.
elex.link/elex2025
#elex2025 #lexicography
November 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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The Sketch Engine team is at the eLex conference in Bled, Slovenia!
Thanks to Michael Rundell for his fascinating talk on the changes in lexicography.
If you want to hear more from us, be sure to catch Ondřej Herman's talk on the development of monitor corpora today at 17:30!
elex.link/elex2025/
November 19, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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A major milestone for our English Trends corpus: 100 billion tokens (≈ 86 billion words) since 2014, with 70 million words added each week. It’s available with a free trial.
🔗 www.sketchengine.eu/english-tren...
#corpuslinguistics #bigdata #language
November 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Explore how Tamil words change through time with our latest corpus — ideal for discovering #neologisms and emerging language trends.
www.sketchengine.eu/tamil-trends...
October 31, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Registration is now open! Join us at Lexicom 2026, a 5-day workshop in #lexicography, #corpuslinguistics, #dictionaries, and lexical computing. Be part of this well-established course with a 20-year tradition, held in Palermo 🇮🇹, 14–18 September.
🔗 lexicom.courses/lexicom-2026...
Lexicom 2026 - a course in lexicography and lexical computing
October 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Track how Hebrew words evolve over time with our new corpus — perfect for uncovering #neologisms and language trends. www.sketchengine.eu/hebrew-trend... #corpuslinguistics #textanalysis
October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Our memories from last week in Bari are still fresh in our minds 🇮🇹
Lexicom 2025 brought together participants from 11 countries across 3 continents — all united by their passion for #dictionaries and #lexicography.
Huge thanks to everyone who joined us!
September 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Sketch Engine was used to analyze texts from suicidal teens, showing family, friends, and future goals as reasons to live. This shows how corpora support #therapists and #psychologists. Sketch Engine secures sensitive data with private uploads by default and ISO27001 certification.
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September 22, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Our Concordance feature now has a colorful upgrade to make patterns and structures easier to see. Highlights show up automatically when using filters, opening results from Word Sketch, or applying CQL labels. (ske.li/cql_label).
#corpuslinguistics #textanalysis
September 16, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Greetings from Shanghai (上海), where Miloš Jakubíček, CEO of Sketch Engine, gave a keynote speech at AsiaLex 2025: "Beyond Automation: Keeping Lexicographers in Control with LLMs and Post-Editing."
asialex2025.cn/index.html
#lexicographer #LLM
September 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Lexonomy has been selected as the hosting service for the Dictionary of the Dobrogean Tatar Dialect (Dicționarului Graiului Tătar Dobrogean). Browse this trilingual dictionary at www.lexonomy.eu#/dobruca_cri... More info (in Romanian) agerpres.ro/comunicate/2... #crimeantatar #dictionary
September 5, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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We’re glad to once again be at the TSD2025 conference, held this year in Erlangen 🇩🇪. Attend Vlasta’s talk on evaluating PoS tagging for Czech in Oral Session 10, Lecture Hall B, at 10 AM on Thursday 28 August.
🗒️https://www.kiv.zcu.cz/tsd2025/index.php?page=program
#corpuslinguistics #NLP
August 26, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Word Sketch Difference helps you spot subtle differences between near-synonyms by showing the collocations unique to each word. Perfect for #languagelearner, #lexicographer, #linguist, or anyone who loves exploring the fine shades of meaning in language.
www.sketchengine.eu/quick-start-...
August 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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The Limerick Corpus of spoken Irish English (LCIE) is now in Sketch Engine. Many thanks to Prof. @fionafarr.bsky.social
,‪‪ @unioflimerick.bsky.social, and Prof. Anne O’Keeffe, @micireland.bsky.social & UL, for permission to include it. www.sketchengine.eu/limerick-cor...
The Limerick Corpus of spoken Irish English (LCIE) is now in Sketch Engine.
August 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Explore how word frequency changes over time using our new Greek corpus—ideal for spotting #neologisms in the language.
www.sketchengine.eu/greek-trends...
#corpuslinguistics #textanalysis
August 7, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Track how Norwegian is evolving – week by week. Two new corpora in Bokmål and Nynorsk are now live, great for spotting #neologisms and language change.
www.sketchengine.eu/norwegian-bo...
#corpuslinguistics #textanalysis
July 21, 2025 at 11:42 AM