The Pilot Corpus of the English Semantic Sketches

In the current paper, we present the pilot corpus of the English semantic sketches and compare the English sketches with their Russian counterparts. The semantic sketch is a lexicographical portrait of a verb, which is built on a large dataset of contexts and includes the most frequent dependencies of the verb. The sketches consist of the semantic roles which, in turn, are filled with the most typical representatives of the roles. The influence of context on word recognition has been well-known for quite a time. Semantic context allows faster word recognition and the inferring of the skipped words while reading. The research in this area has been conducted in psycholinguistics since the 1970s, with the earliest works by (Tweedy et al., 1977) and (Becker, 1980).