Creating a corpus of historical documents for emotions identification

The aim of this article is to contextualize and describe the gathering and annotation of a conventual Hispanic and Novo Hispanic texts corpus for emotions identification. Such corpus will be the dataset for an emotions identification model based on machine learning \ deep learning techniques. Furthermore, this document describes several exploratory experiments carried out on the corpus. Within these experiments, it is described how the corpus is also used to obtain a lexicon mapped to polarities and emotions, and how some of the documents are hand-labeled by experts for the evaluation of the Machine Learning \ Deep learning -based emotion classification model. Finally, the future uses and experiments with said corpus are described.