Sketch Engine for English Language Learning
Vít Baisa, Vít Suchomel, Adam Kilgarriff, Miloš Jakubíček · 2015
There are many websites for language learners: wordreference.com, 1 Using English, 2 and many others. Some of them use corpus tools or corpus data such as Linguee, 3 Wordnik 4 and bab.la. 5 We introduce a novel free web service aimed at teachers and students of English which offers similar functions but is based on a specially prepared corpus suitable for language learners, using fully automated processing, offering the advantages that the corpus is very large – so can offer ample examples for even quite rare words and expressions. We call the service SkELL—Sketch Engine for Language Learning. 6