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catRef

The <catRef> (category reference) provides a list of codes identifyig the categories to which a text has been assigned, each code referencing a category element declared in the corpus header. Here is an example showing the category reference for one text (BND):
<catRef targets="WRI ALLTIM3 ALLAVA2 ALLTYP3 WRIAAG0 WRIAD0 WRIASE3 WRIATY2 WRIAUD3 WRIDOM8 WRILEV2 WRIMED1 WRIPP5 WRISAM1 WRISTA2 WRITAS3"/>
The targets and their values are listed below. The value 0 is used to indicate missing or unknown values.

Text mode
  • SPO = Transcribed speech,
  • WRI = Written
ALLTIM : Publication date
  1. 1960-1974
  2. 1975-1984
  3. 1985-1993
ALLAVA = Availability:
  1. Ownership unclaimed,
  2. Worldwide rights cleared
ALLTYP : Text type
  1. Spoken demographically sampled,
  2. Spoken context governed
  3. Written books and periodicals,
  4. written-to-be-spoken
  5. written miscellaneous
WRIAAG : Age of Author
  1. 0-14,
  2. 15-24,
  3. 25-34,
  4. 35-44,
  5. 45-59,
  6. 60+
WRIAD : Domicile of author
  1. UK and Ireland,
  2. Commonwealth,
  3. Continental Europe,
  4. USA
  5. Elsewhere,
WRIASE : Sex of author
  1. Male,
  2. Female,
  3. Mixed,
WRIATY : Author type
  1. Corporate,
  2. Multiple,
  3. Sole
WRIAUD : Target Audience age
  1. Child,
  2. Teenager
  3. Adult,
  4. Any
WRIDOM : Written domain
  1. Imaginative,
  2. Informative: natural and pure science,
  3. Informative: applied science,
  4. Social science
  5. World affairs,
  6. Commerce and finance,
  7. Arts,
  8. Belief and thought,
  9. Leisure
WRILEV : Written difficulty
  1. Low,
  2. Medium
  3. High
WRIMED : Written medium
  1. Book,
  2. Periodical,
  3. Misc published,
  4. Misc unpublished,
  5. To-be-spoken
WRIPP : Publication place
  1. UK (unspec),
  2. Ireland,
  3. UK: North (north of Mersey-Humber line),
  4. UK: Midlands (north of Bristol Channel-Wash line),
  5. UK: South (south of Bristol Channel-Wash line),
  6. United States
WRISAM : Sampling type
  1. Whole
  2. Beginning,
  3. Middle,
  4. End,
  5. Composite
WRISTA : Estimated circulation
  1. Low,
  2. Medium,
  3. High,
WRITAS : Target Audience sex
  1. Male,
  2. Female,
  3. Mixed
SDEAGE : Respondent Age group
  1. 0-14,
  2. 15-24,
  3. 25-34,
  4. 35-44,
  5. 45-59,
  6. 60+
SDECLA : Respondent Social class
  1. AB (Higher management: administrative or professional)
  2. C1 (Lower management: supervisory or clerical)
  3. C2 (Skilled manual)
  4. DE ( Semi-skilled or unskilled)
SDESEX : Respondent Sex
  1. Male,
  2. Female
SCGDOM : Spoken context
  1. Educational/Informative,
  2. Business,
  3. Public/institutional
  4. Leisure
SPOLOG : Interaction type
  1. Monologue
  2. Dialogue
SPOREG : Region where captured
  1. South,
  2. Midlands,
  3. North

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