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Explore the corpus by searching for words, lemmas, grammatical categories and linguistic patterns

Search help and examples

Searching without symbols

Type your words without symbols and choose the type of search:

Broad search: Finds words from the same word family.
Narrow search: Finds every form of each word (plurals, verb tenses…).
Exact search: Finds the text exactly as written.

Text in quotation marks is always searched literally and in that order. The symbols in the following sections still work and are respected.

Exact words

You can search both historical spellings, as they appear in the corpus, and their modern equivalents.

Lemmas

Use $ before a term to search by lemma.

Grammatical categories

Use a category between < >, or the category dropdown.

Wildcards

* replaces several characters and ? replaces one. They also work with $.

Word families

& searches the word and its direct family: the word it comes from, the words that come from it and its siblings.

Word or lemma + category

Add :categoría to restrict a term to a grammatical category.

Distance between terms

A number between two terms sets the maximum number of words that may separate them, and makes them be searched in that order.

Advanced search

You can combine lemmas, wildcards, categories and distance in a single query.

Document filters

Use the filter panel to restrict results by date, authority, alderman, notary, place or book without changing the linguistic query.

The CADIEM Search Engine makes it possible to explore and analyse the Books of Minutes of the Cabildo de La Palma (1559–1599), transcribed and edited as an annotated historical corpus. It is built on InteLiText Technology, a natural language processing solution that brings linguistic intelligence to searching documentary corpora.

Thanks to InteLiText, the search engine supports queries by exact words, lemmas, grammatical categories, lexical families, wildcards and distance between terms, and allows results to be filtered by session minutes and their context to be adjusted. It is thus a Digital Humanities tool for the study of the political, economic, social and administrative history of the Canary Islands in the early modern period.

InteLiText technology has been developed by the University Institute for Text Analysis and Applications (IATEXT) of the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, which is also responsible for its research and technological development.