What is Humtext?
Humtext. Corpus of written humor is an online corpus specifically designed for the study of written humor in printed publications, such as newspapers, brochures, magazines, almanacs, books, booklets, or fanzines from Spain, the Americas, the Philippines, and Equatorial Guinea.  This corpus complements the multimodal database Humcor, which collects over 125 years of oral humorous production in Spanish.

What does Humtext include? 
Humtext includes a wide variety of humorous texts (jokes, anecdotes, epigrams, death notices, obituaries, epitaphs, letters, short stories, articles, chronicles, and news items) in different formats, such as comic panels, comic strips, and illustrations.

What time period does Humtext cover?
The corpus spans a broad historical period, with materials dating from approximately 1460 to the present day—that is, over 500 years of written humorous production. The texts have been gathered from online historical archives, personal collections, libraries, and digital platforms.

What is the purpose of Humtext?
Humtext aims to study and systematically document written humor on a large scale across the different varieties of Spanish found in printed texts over more than five centuries. It also includes the digitization of humor-related materials from printed publications, with the goal of creating a digital library dedicated to written humor.