This report provides information about the methodology used during the first phase of the linguistic analysis of the Humanitarian Encyclopedia creation (Geneva Centre for Humanitarian Studies). Firts, this report presents the methodology for a fine linguistic analysis. It details softwares used and provides indications about the duration of each step of the linguistic analysis. It also underlines the particular issues encountered and the possible improvements. Second, it presents the specifications for the large corpora (75M occurrences) built for the project and the documentation selected to compile it.