Abstract
ALCIDE (Analysis of Language and Content In a Digital Environment) is a web-based platform designed to assist humanities scholars in analysing large quantities of data such as historical sources and literary works. The system combines a flexible suite of tools to browse through the content of document collections and analyse them along different dimensions, including the lexical, the semantic, the geographical and the temporal level. In the first stage of the collaboration we focused on the writings and speeches of Alcide De Gasperi. We are now extending the platform with new corpora, e.g. presidential speeches.