CODEA: a "Primary" Corpus of Spanish Historical Documents

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The aim of this article is to describe CODEA, Corpus de Documentos Españoles Anteriores a 1700, an online corpus containing 1,500 documents dating from the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries and to present a new development, CODEA+ 2015. These corpora have been created by GITHE (Grupo de Investigación de Textos para la Historia del Español). CODEA is a primary corpus, meaning that the GITHE is responsible both for the edition of the documents and the construction of the corpus. Also, the editing of the documents is carried out using scientific criteria which have been defined by Red CHARTA on the basis of extensive research. Finally, the usability of the corpus is increased by tools such as research engines and an advanced display of the results on graphics and maps, which turn the corpus into a powerful research tool on linguistic variation, both diachronic and geographic.