Attribute

An attribute can refer to:

Positional attribute

A positional attribute – information added to each token in a corpus, e.g. its lemma or part of speech. In this example, the token has three positional attributes: the word form doing, the part-of-speech tag VERB and the lemma do

word    tag    lemma
doing   VERB   do

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Structure attribute

A structure attribute is information added to a structure in a corpus, often called metadata.

Here, the doc(ument) structure has the pub_year attribute. The attribute has a value: 2012.

<doc pub_year="2012">
See also

Structure

Commonly used structures

Adding structures to your corpus

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