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UPDATED VERSIONS OF OVI CORPUS (JUNE 2025)

22-06-2025

Updated versions of the OVI Corpus, the TLIO Corpus, and the OVI Corpus of Early Italian have been released: they are aligned with the structure developed in the RENOVO Project (Regenerating the OVI Corpus: Ren​ewal and Optimization of Methods, Contents and Tools  - PRIN 2017), aimed at the philological and textual renewal of the two corpora in continuity with CoVo Project (The corpus of the Italian vocabulary of the origins:philological update and interoperability - PRIN 2015). See the  criteria for updating.
TLIO ​Corpus

It is a lemmatized corpus, and includes the texts of reference for the TLIO. 58 new texts hitherto absent have been inserted (see list here). 

The new version of the TLIO Corpus that today is published online includes ​3,353 texts (with an increase of 58 units compared to the September 9, 2024 version), for a total of ​​​​​24,160,197 occurrences (with an increment of ​​111,476 occurrences), ​​​500,446 distinct graphic forms, ​​​​127,579 lemmas, and ​4,856,664 lemmatized occurrences (with an increment of ​​45,783 occurrences).

OVI ​Corpus

It is a non-lemmatized corpus (but searchable with the “lemmi muti” GattoWeb function), which includes the TLIO Corpus and extends it to include all the published texts dating before the end of the XIV Century: it is the corpus that aims to allow the interrogation of the entire textual heritage of early Italian. 

The new version of the OVI Corpus that today is published online includes ​​​3,725 texts (with an increase of 74 units compared to the September 9, 2024 version; see list here), for a total of ​​30,825,286 occurrences (with an increment of ​​​​​​​143,288 occurrences), and ​​​​​562,342 distinct graphic forms.