It is generally practical to divide a corpus into smaller parts called structures. By deafult, data uploaded to Sketch Engine are enriched with these structures automatically. The author can, however, decide to use their own structures and use any other names.
<doc>
is a document, which usually corresponds to a single web page or a file uploaded to Sketch Engine. It can have multiple attributes like URL/source (the source document), author, publication_date etc.
<p>
is a paragraph. It can have various attributes heading (value “1” means the paragraph is a heading/caption). Paragraphs are only added if the source document is a html file containing <p> html tags.
<s>
stands for a sentence.
<g>
is the “glue” tag. By deafult, tokens in Sketch Engine are displayed with a space between them. The glue is inserted between tokens which should be displayed without a space, e.g. don’t is two tokens but no space between them should be shown. Inserting <g> between them does exactly that. It is only used to make the display of data look natural.
All structures in the corpus together wit their count is displayed on the corpus info page.
Adding structures and metadata to your corpus
Please refer to corpus annotation for details.
