document

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 but certain corpora may use a different convention such as British National Corpus which uses . 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.

see Corpus annotation