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.