= Preparing a Corpus for the Sketch Engine: Overview =

To prepare a corpus for the Sketch Engine, we must

 * Prepare the data, including both 
   * [wiki:SkE/PrepareText] [the text]
   * [wiki:SkE/PrepareHeaders] [the header information] (if any)
 * Prepare a [wiki:SkE/CorpusConfig] [corpus configuration file]
 * Prepare a [wiki:SkE/SubcorpusConfig] [subcorpus configuration file]
 * Run the ''encodevert'' program.

(Here we assume a running !SketchEngine installation.)

This will give us a corpus which can be queried to give a range of concordances and lists.  If, in addition, word sketches are required we must also

 * Prepare a ''grammatical relations definitions (gramrels)'' file: see [wiki:SkE/CorpusQuerying]
 * Run the ''mkws.sh'' script.

This will also prepare the thesaurus which requires no additional inputs.  It takes the word sketch database as input.

Further details on [wiki:SkE/CompilingCorpus compiling corpora]