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Sketch Engine @sketchengine.eu · 13d

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!

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Sketch Engine @sketchengine.eu · 16d

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.
shorturl.at/Sl8Ot

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Sketch Engine @sketchengine.eu · 22d

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

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Sketch Engine @sketchengine.eu · 26d

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

Sketch Engine @sketchengine.eu · Sep 5

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

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Sketch Engine @sketchengine.eu · Aug 26

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

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Sketch Engine @sketchengine.eu · Aug 25

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-...

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Sketch Engine @sketchengine.eu · Aug 14

EMLEx is among the top 5 Humanities programs in Spain, according to El Mundo’s 2025/2026 ranking! Proud that this European Master in Lexicography uses Sketch Engine to support future lexicographers. www.emlex.eu.usc.gal/web/big-news...
#digitalhumanities #ErasmusMundus #lexicography

Big news for EMLex! | Emlex. European Master in Lexicography

www.emlex.eu.usc.gal

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Sketch Engine @sketchengine.eu · Aug 12

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...

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Sketch Engine @sketchengine.eu · Aug 7

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

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Sketch Engine @sketchengine.eu · Aug 4

🇯🇵 We now have a Japanese agent – Unipos (ユニポス, operated by Tegara Corporation) – making it easier to gain access to Sketch Engine services in Japan. Full press release here: www.value-press.com/pressrelease...

ユニポス、世界標準の言語分析ツール「Sketch Engine」の国内取り扱いを開始〜100言語以上対応、翻訳・辞書制作・研究を革新するコーパス分析ツール〜

テガラ株式会社のプレスリリース（2025年7月29日 17時）。海外製品調達サービス「ユニポス」（運営：テガラ株式会社）は、言語コーパス検索・分析ツール「Sketch Engine」の国内取り扱いを開始しました。本ツールは、言語学者・翻訳者・辞書編纂者・教育研究機関・NLP専門家など、世界中のプロフェッショナルに支持されている言語分析プラットフォームです。ユニポスでは、ライセンス手配から導入支援ま...

www.value-press.com

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Sketch Engine @sketchengine.eu · Jul 21

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

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Sketch Engine @sketchengine.eu · Jul 14

Sketch Engine is used worldwide for language research. It’s great to see that a Sketch Engine workshop was a part of the University of Education’s summer school on corpus linguistics in Lahore, Pakistan 🇵🇰.
www.urdupoint.com/en/pakistan/...
#corpuslinguistics #linguistics

UE Hosts Summer Workshop On Corpus Linguistics,AI And Freelancing Empowerment - UrduPoint

University of Education (UE),Lahore on Saturday successfully hosted the first-ever interdisciplinary summer workshop combining Corpus Linguistics,Generative Artificial Intelligence and Freelancing Emp...

www.urdupoint.com

Sketch Engine @sketchengine.eu · Jul 4

📢 Attention #journalist, #linguist, and #politicalscience researcher: now showing ParlaTalk, a collection of parliamentary corpora from 22 EU states – regularly updated. #digitalhumanities
🌐 www.sketchengine.eu/parlatalk-co...

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Sketch Engine @sketchengine.eu · Jul 1

Greetings from Birmingham 🇬🇧 at @cl2025.co.uk! We're proud sponsors of the Corpus Linguistics 2025 conference. Stop by and chat with Vlasta and Franta about Sketch Engine.
#CL2025 #corpuslinguistics

Sketch Engine team at the Corpus Linguistics 2025 conference, Birmingham, UK

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Sketch Engine @sketchengine.eu · Jun 18

The new Russian Corpus 2020 now available in Sketch Engine. The corpus is part-of-speech tagged and lemmatized, and enriched with topic & genre classification. Perfect for #corpuslinguistics, #digitalhumanities, #linguistics, #lexicography, and #nlp.

Russian corpus 2020 with 19 billion words in Sketch Engine now

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Sketch Engine @sketchengine.eu · Jun 5

We’re happy twice — once for the new Occitan–Polish dictionary, and again because it was made with Lexonomy 🙂
Nice work @paubo.bsky.social!

Pau Bofill @paubo.bsky.social · May 31

I'm happy to share my first ever dictionary, which is also the first ever Occitan - Polish dictionary! I've created a bilingual dictionary of the 100 Swadesh list terms using Lexonomy, a great tool for creating dictionaries.

It's accessible and browsable through this link:

lexonomy.eu#/oci-pol

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Sketch Engine @sketchengine.eu · Jun 3

Last week Miloš Jakubíček, the CEO of Lexical Computing, presented OneClick Dictionary in Sketch Engine and DMLex in #Lexonomy at the Dictionary Society of North America conference (DSNA25) in Buffalo, New York. Thanks to the organizers! #dictionary #lexicography

Miloš Jakubíček, the CEO of Lexical Computing, presenting Sketch Engine at the Dictionary Society of North America, DSNA25

Sketch Engine @sketchengine.eu · Jun 2

We joined #Polyglot Gathering 2025 in Brno, CZ 🇨🇿 — the home city of Sketch Engine! Almost a thousand language lovers in one place. Nice to meet fellow enthusiasts and talk about languages, corpora, and Sketch Engine. #languagelearning

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Sketch Engine @sketchengine.eu · May 23

Maybe you didn't know: Sketch Engine offers keyboard shortcuts. ⌨️ Press k + s (press one, release, then the other) to see the full list of hotkeys. A simple way to get things done quicker.
See all shortcuts 👉 ske.li/shortcuts
#corpuslinguistics #textanalysis

Sketch Engine supports keyboard shortcuts.

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Sketch Engine @sketchengine.eu · May 15

Researchers from the University of Malaga used Sketch Engine to identify complex terms in medical texts. ChatGPT then rewrote them into simpler, patient-friendly language. A smart mix of linguistics + AI! Read more at bit.ly/4dr2a67.
#AI #corpuslinguistics #termextraction

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Sketch Engine @sketchengine.eu · Apr 7

Meet our guest lecturer for Lexicom 2025, a 5-day course in #lexicography and #corpuslinguistics: Julie Moore, freelance lexicographer with 25+ years’ experience working for all the major UK publishers, including Oxford, Cambridge, Collins, and others. 👉 lexicom.courses/lexicom-2025...

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Sketch Engine @sketchengine.eu · Apr 1

New feature! The concordance in Sketch Engine now adjusts its layout based on the content it displays.
www.sketchengine.eu/concordance-... #languagetechnology #corpuslinguistics

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Sketch Engine @sketchengine.eu · Mar 28

Get your Italian multiword terms in one click! Quickly find relevant terminology in reports, documents, or articles with OneClick Terms. Try it now 👉 terms.sketchengine.eu
#terminology #termextraction

Sketch Engine @sketchengine.eu · Mar 20

All #NLP scientists are invited to participate in the Robust Word Sense Induction CoNLL-2025 shared task. This initiative contributes to our colleague Ondřej Herman's dissertation. projects.sketchengine.eu/conll2025/
CoNLL 2025 is co-located with #ACL2025 🇦🇹. #NLProc #computationalscience

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