Each report is generally composed of the following elements:

• Frequencies, which will allow you to see the regions, document types, years and organization types where your concept appears relevant.

• Definitions, whether standardized and authoritative or ad hoc, together with a summary of definitional elements and a comparison based on the corpus metadata.

• Related concepts, indicating how concepts change their relational behaviour based on organization type, geographical areas or time.

• Frequent collocations, mostly nouns, adjectives and verbs, showing other surrounding concepts in the corpus.

• Synonyms and antonyms, where applicable, together with the sources from which they were extracted.

• Usage over time, where applicable, according to both the HE corpus and Google Ngram Viewer.

• Trends, debates and controversies surrounding the concept.

All of these elements are accompanied by comparative observations together with a series of interactive graphics and the contexts from which the data where extracted. Graphics are shown in the form of small snapshots in the main page of each entry, you can open them in a new page by clicking in Click here to enlarge. If you click on See contexts, you will see a dynamic table where you can filter the results based on different parameters.

The HE Corpus

The HE Corpus is a collection of 4,824 documents, amounting to a total of 71,201,157 distinct words. Each document contains metadata, which allows to divide the corpus into multiple sections, i.e. sub-corpora. The following sections describe the corpus composition by issuing organisation, region and year of publication, as well as document type. You can access and browse the documents by code in the left hand panel.

Organisation Types and Subtypes

The HE Corpus consists of documents produced by multiple organisations dealing with humanitarian matters. Each organisation is categorised in a hierarchy of 11 types and 26 subtypes.

The following interactive chart shows the composition of the HE Corpus by organisation type and subtype. Clicking on a wedge of the big pie chart reveals the subtypes comprising each type. To find out more about each organisation type and subtype, simply hover over each wedge.

World Regions

Comparing phenomena across regions can yield significant insight as to how a concept behaves in different parts of the world. Based on their place of publication, documents in the HE Corpus are classified into 7 regions: Africa, Asia, CCSA (Caribbean, Central and South America) MENA (Middle East and North Africa), North America and Oceania.

The following map illustrates the distribution of words in the corpus according to each world region. Click on each bubble to learn more about the distribution of organisation types in each region.

Document Types & Year of Publication

Organisations involved in the humanitarian domain generate a wealth of textual data. Based on their nature and communication role, all documents in the HE Corpus are classified into one of 3 broad categories: General Document, Activity Report and Strategy. In addition, each document is identified by its year of publication. Not only can linguists compare patterns across document types, but they can also look at when phenomena emerge and how they evolve across time.

The following histogram shows the distribution of all documents in the corpus by document type between 2005 and 2019.