A Quantitative Evaluation of Word Sketches

摘要: A word sketch is an automatic corpus-derived summary of a word's grammatical and collocational behaviour. Word sketches were first prepared in 1999 for the compilation the Macmillan English Dictionary Advanced Learners (Rundell 2002). They have since been integrated into Sketch Engine corpus query tool (Kilgarriff et al 2004), fifteen languages, used on a large scale lexicography by a number publishers. How good are they? We frequently told how impressive they how little miss - but we would like more rigorous assessment. In this paper present a formal evaluation Dutch, English, Japanese Slovene.