PPCEME

Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English, release 3

Citation

Kroch, Anthony, Beatrice Santorini, and Lauren Delfs. 2004. The Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English (PPCEME). Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania. Currently distributed by the Linguistic Data Consortium as part of the Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English.

Acknowledgments

We are grateful to the following institutions and individuals for their support and assistance:

  • The National Endowment for the Humanities for NEH Grant PA 23382-99.

  • The National Science Foundation for NSF Grant BCS 99-05488.

  • The users of the Penn parsed historical corpora for their financial support in purchasing the corpus.

  • Our colleagues at the University of Helsinki: Prof. Terttu Nevalainen, director of the Helsinki Corpus project, and Prof. Matti Rissanen, the project’s emeritus director, for permission to use the Early Modern English part of the Helsinki Corpus of English; Prof. Nevalainen and Dr. Helena Raumolin-Brunberg for help with sample selection and for comments on our documentation of the samples; and Dr. Merya Kytö for information concerning the source of various Helsinki Corpus samples.

  • Beth Randall for writing the CorpusSearch program, especially for adding the corpus revision functions that support corpus construction.

  • Ann Taylor for help in understanding the PPCME2 annotation guidelines and adapting them to modern English.

  • Amy Forsyth, the administrative coordinator of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, and Glynis Platt of the University Library at the University of Manchester for their help in obtaining an elusive text.

  • The staff in the Rare Book Collection of Van Pelt Library at the University of Pennsyvania, especially John Pollack.

  • The users of the corpus who reported errors to us, notably Hezekiah Bacovcin, Aaron Ecay, Tom McFadden, and Joel Wallenberg, thereby allowing us to improve the quality of the corpus over time.