Sketch Engine is a corpus manager tool offering many corpus linguistics tools. From concordancing, various context statistics, distributional thesaurus, word sketches to keyword and term extraction, building your own corpora, …
IntelliWebSearch is a Windows tool which copies highlighted text from a Windows application (MS Word, CAT systems, etc.) and puts it into a search engine (online dictionary, online translation memory, encyclopedias, thesauri etc.) and shows the result in your Internet browser. In two clicks.
This API provides a simple redirection to the main Sketch Engine installation through a simple API with 3 parameters: language, function, and query. Calling the result URL will take you to the standard SkE address with the result requested. You need to have a valid Sketch Engine account. For the first time, you will need to log in. All further redirection will take you directly to the result page.
Languages
Parameter in URL: language=<LANG>
Languages available are: persian, welsh, japanese, romanian, slovenian, greek, portuguese, thai, vietnamese, turkish, chinese-traditional, hindi, telugu, czech, finnish, croatian, italian, swedish, danish, indonesian, chinese-simplified, malayalam, bengali, spanish, estonian, german, arabic, hebrew, basque, , bulgarian, serbian, yoruba, french, dutch, english, russian, swahili
Functions
parameter in URL: func=<FUNC>
Available values:
- concordance – Concordance
- word sketch – Word Sketch
- thesaurus – Thesaurus
Example queries
The last parameter in URL is query=<QUERY>, another obligatory parameter is page=iws to activate IntelliWebSearch API.
To obtain a Sketch Engine page, you need to build a URL with this structure:
PREFIX + LANGUAGE + FUNCTION + QUERY
where PREFIX = ;
E.g. to get thesaurus (similar words) for a English word school, call this URL:
Download configurations for IntelliWebSearch
Configuration files for SkELL
Configuration files for the Sketch Engine
For more information about the functions, see Sketch Engine features.
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