The University Institute of Textual Analysis and Applications (IATEXT) was created by the Government Council of the Canary Islands on January 30, 2014 (BOC of 02/17/2014) and has the powers recognized by the LOSU and the Statutes of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC). Its headquarters are located on the Obelisco Campus of the ULPGC.

The general objective of IATEXT is to produce results in basic research and develop digital resources for both research and educational, cultural and professional fields. To this end, it focuses its interdisciplinary research on a) the editing and analysis of different types of texts from a linguistic, literary, historical, geographical or computational perspective; b) Digital Humanities, and c) Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. Thus, it is an interdisciplinary institute where researchers from the field of Humanities coexist with researchers from the area of ​​Computer Science.

The Doctor and member of the University Institute of Textual Analysis and Applications, Manuel Méndez Alonzo together with the Doctor Raúl Villagrasa Elías will teach the university extension course "Health and Hospital Institutions in Spain and New Spain (1400-1600)" from February 14 to March 13, 2024.

CLARIAH-ES has recently met to celebrate the first work workshop in the that all participating nodes have been present, including IATEXT, to advance and promote the newly created research infrastructure.

CLARIAH-ES  is a distributed digital research infrastructure initially constituted by 10 Spanish research entities that are related, by their previous participation and current interest, to the European research infrastructures, already constituted as European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), for the humanities and social sciences: CLARIN (www.clarin.eu) and DARIAH (www.dariah.eu).

In 2022, UNESCO awarded the consortium formed by the universities of Alcalá, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Rey Juan Carlos, together with the España Creativa association, the UNESCO Chair on Creative Economy for Sustainable Development and Transforming the World.