Word Sketch

In the "Word sketch entry form" in the main panel you enter

• a corpus
• a lemma (base or stem form of a word) and
• the part of speech of that lemma (e.g. noun)

then click Show Word sketch to see information on the key grammatical and collocational behaviour of the lemma.

(see also the word sketch section in our getting started documentation)

You can select Advanced Options on the Left hand side panel and then in the entry form you can specify

• Subcorpus: a subcorpus over which the word sketch is computed
• Sort Grammatical Relations: whether the grammatical relations are sorted according to the FIXORDER directive in the corpus configuration file, or whether they are displayed in order of the grammar definition file
• Minimum frequency/salience: minimum frequency and/or salience (Salience is defined as logDice see section 2 of  ske-stat.pdf)
• Maximum number of items in a grammatical relation: the maximum number of collocations to display for any grammatical relation
• Sort collocations according to: whether collocates should be sorted by salience or frequency
• Cluster Collocates: whether collocations are clustered (see here for details on how the clustering is performed)
• Minimum similarity between cluster items: a threshold on the minimum similarity between collocations in the same cluster
• Structure word sketch by gramrels select this to see the word sketch in blocks according to the grammatical relations
• Show links to multiword sketches - to allow filtering of the sketches based on the selected collocations
• Select gramrels: here you can pick and choose the grammatical relations to be displayed. The full list is defined by the sketch grammar for the corpus

MultiWord Sketch

(new in version 2.54-2.89)

There is a possibility to see the word sketch for multiword expressions. It is done by filtering word sketch according to particular collocates -- e.g. you can show the word sketch for "water" filtered by the occurences with "hot" as a modifier. If you make a regular word sketch and tick Show links to multiword sketches in the advanced options, you will see little arrows next to each collocation that will lead you to the corresponding filtered word sketch / multiword sketch.

If you enter multiple lemmas into the lemma field, SketchEngine will automatically try to guess the headword and show the filtered wordsketch for the headword. Note that not always the automatic choice is optimal -- in case you do not see what you wanted or you get a message saying there are no results, it may be worth to try to start from the headword and look up the particular collocates.