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IPN develops software using the old Spanish

the polytechnic scientist stressed that this corpus is unique in its kind for quality in electronic format; also has a friendly interface that gives certainty and linguistic data accuracy

Rocío Méndez Robles

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with a base of three million words from 19 Spanish-speaking countries of America, the IPN develops software using the old Spanish

researchers at the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) developed a specialized computer system for linguists that allows to know in depth the use of certain words of the old Spanish, through a collection of three thousand 534 documents written in America between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.

This software integrates and dystopian Diachronic Corpus of Spanish America (Cordiam) of the Mexican Academy of Language, which is made up of a database of three million words extracted files 19 Spanish-speaking American countries, in addition to the southwestern United States, Jamaica, Haiti and Guyana.

by Cordiam seeks to integrate the different dialects of Spanish of America and form a comprehensive history of language on our continent will be useful for . historians and anthropologists

the specialists of the Center for Computing Research (CIC), Alexander Gelbukh and Grigori Sidorov, developed the computer system; Gelbukh as head of the Laboratory of Natural Language Processing Text, explained that the first document for the year 1494 and the last in 1905, covers the founding period, the colonial / colonial and the first century most American independence.

the polytechnic scientist stressed that this corpus is unique in its kind for quality in electronic format; also has a friendly interface that gives certainty and linguistic data accuracy because its search engine has specific filters such as age, year, country of origin, author, origin of writing and ethnicity.