Un corpus anotado de 100.000.000 de palabras del español histórico y moderno

The first annotated corpus of historical and modern Spanish – the 100,000,000 word Corpus del Español – is now online at http://www.corpusdelespanol.org. Unlike other corpora of historical Spanish, the “Corpus del Español” allows searches by 35 grammatical categories, 20,000 lemmata, and 30,000 groups of synonyms and antonyms, in addition to searches by etymology, frequency, and by user-defined semantic and syntactic categories. All of this allows searches as complex as “pronominal direct object + all forms of any synonym of querer + infinitive, which occurs in the 1900s but not in the 1700s or 1800s”. It is also possible to easily produce complete lists of collocations. The flexibility and power of the corpus (as well as the speed – 2-3 seconds for nearly all searches) are due to the innovative architecture of the corpus – several relational databases that are linked together and which contain annotation for the 45,000,000 distinct n-grams in the corpus.