[3] Sketch Engine is a product of Lexical Computing, a company founded in 2003 by the lexicographer and research scientist Adam Kilgarriff.

[4] He started a collaboration with Pavel Rychlý, a computer scientist working at the Natural Language Processing Centre, Masaryk University,[5] and the developer of Manatee and Bonito (two major parts of the software suite).

The terminology extraction feature provides a list of relevant terms based on comparison with a large corpus of general language.

Results are drawn from a special corpus of high-quality texts covering everyday, standard, formal, and professional language and displayed as a concordance.

[9] It has been suggested that SKELL can be used, for instance, to help students understand the meaning and/or usage of a word or phrase; to help teachers wanting to use example sentences in a class; to discover and explore collocates; to create gap-fill exercises; to teach various kinds of homonyms and polysemous words.

[17] Manatee is a database management system specifically devised for effective indexing of large text corpora.

[19] Manatee is written in C++ and offers an API for a number of other programming languages including Python, Java, Perl and Ruby.