document
Synonyms:
file, files
A document (called a file in old corpora) in Sketch Engine refers to any file, document or webpage the corpus is made up of.
If a user uploads a file (such as .doc, .pdf, .txt), each of the files becomes a corpus document. If the user downloads content from the web, each web page becomes a corpus document.
The beginning and end of each document is automatically marked with a structure, most typically with <doc></doc> but certain corpora may use a different convention such as British National Corpus which uses <bncdoc></bncdoc>. This can be checked on the corpus info page.
A corpus can also be divided into documents by manually inserting document structures into the source text.
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