Terminology finding in the Sketch Engine: an Evaluation

摘要

The Sketch Engine is a leading corpus query tool, in use for lexicography at OUP, CUP, Collinsrnand Le Robert, and at national language institutes of eight countries, and for teaching andrnresearch in many universities. Its distinctive feature is the ‘word sketch’ a one page, automatic,rncorpus, derived summary of a word’s grammatical and collocational behaviour.rnVery large corpora and word sketches are available for sixty languages.rnA number of tools and resources have recently been added with translators andrnterminologists in mind. The resources are parallel corpora: EUROPARL-7 and the variousrndatasets available in the OPUS collection. The tools are bilingual word sketches and the termrnfinder. These have been reported on in previous Asling/Aslib conferences.rnOne remaining task is to make the Sketch Engine functions conveniently accessible torntranslators and terminologists. We have recently done this via IntelliWebSearch, a tool which letsrnthe user highlight text in the environment they are working in, which could be a CAT tool orrnMicrosoft Word, and, with a key sequence, query their preferred database. So now the keyrnsequence can take the translator or terminologist to a browser window showing the word sketch,rnor parallel concordance, or any of a number of other reports, for the expression they are workingrnon.