{"id":66,"date":"2016-02-08T20:18:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T20:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lexicalcomputing.cz\/?page_id=66"},"modified":"2026-01-05T13:06:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T12:06:44","slug":"lexical-computing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lexicalcomputing.com\/lexical-computing\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-5qnxy-78ed166349ac21135ec316a57665c12d\">\n.flex_column.av-5qnxy-78ed166349ac21135ec316a57665c12d{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-5qnxy-78ed166349ac21135ec316a57665c12d av_one_full  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_hr  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-4wwvm-5fb4a53b5081f3ac17eebef0668f6163 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h2>Lexical Computing<\/h2>\n<p>Lexical Computing is a research company founded by <a href=\"http:\/\/kilgarriff.co.uk\/\">Adam Kilgarriff<\/a> in 2003. It works at the intersection of corpus and computational linguistics\u00a0and is committed to an empiricist approach to the study of language, in which corpora play a central role: for a very wide range of linguistic questions, if a suitable corpus is available, it will help us understand.<\/p>\n<p>The flagship product of Lexical Computing is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sketchengine.eu\/\">Sketch Engine<\/a>, a leading corpus management and corpus query tool used by linguists, lexicographers, translators and publishers worldwide. Its unique feature \u2013 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sketchengine.eu\/user-guide\/user-manual\/word-sketch\/\">Word Sketch<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 and its derived functionalities together with the scalability, multilingual support and ability to handle the largest available corpora make Sketch Engine\u00a0stand out in the crowd of corpus software.<\/p>\n<p>Lexical Computing is a supplier of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lexicalcomputing.com\/word-databases-lexicons-dictionaries\/\">word databases<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lexicalcomputing.com\/word-databases-lexicons-dictionaries\/\">lexicons<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lexicalcomputing.com\/language-databases-tools-solutions\/bigram-trigram-n-gram-database\/\">n-gram databases<\/a> and similar language data for use in other software or for lexicographic projects. Beyond data supply, the company also publishes several works, listed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lexicalcomputing.com\/publications\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Data provided by Sketch Engine and services from Lexical Computing are based on a suite of more than 800 text corpora with a size of up to 80 billion words and covering over 100 languages.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-4ezia-225e4101bbbcd0a7be2d6aad016c1d43\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-4ezia-225e4101bbbcd0a7be2d6aad016c1d43{\nheight:50px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-4ezia-225e4101bbbcd0a7be2d6aad016c1d43 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_button '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<div  class='avia-button-wrap av-3otua-f2bc84e18514b71d5d2172809f5026d4-wrap avia-button-center  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_hr  avia-builder-el-last '><a 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maintained by the Regional Court in Brno, section C, insert 71920.<br \/>\nSpole\u010dnost je zaps\u00e1na v obchodn\u00edm rejst\u0159\u00edku veden\u00e9m u Krajsk\u00e9ho soudu v Brn\u011b, odd\u00edl C, vlo\u017eka 71920.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Milo\u0161 Jakub\u00ed\u010dek<br \/>\nPavel Rychl\u00fd<\/p>\n<p><b>E-mail:\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"mailto:inquiries@lexicalcomputing.com\">inquiries@lexicalcomputing.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Phone:<\/strong> +420 533 534 637<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-66","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Word databases, lexicons and n-gram databases from 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