PPCMBE

Penn Parsed Corpus of Modern British English, 2nd edition, release 1

Citation

Kroch, Anthony, Beatrice Santorini, and C.E.A. Diertani. 2016. The Penn Parsed Corpus of Modern British English (PPCMBE2). Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania. Currently distributed by the Linguistic Data Consortium as part of the Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English.

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Acknowledgments

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

• The National Science Foundation for NSF grants BCS 05-08731 and BCS 11-47499.

• The users of the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English (PPCME2) and the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English (PPCEME) for their financial support in purchasing the corpora.

• Dan Bikel for allowing us to use his Penn dissertation parser for our work.

• Seth Kulick for his help with training the Bikel parser and adapting it to our needs.

• Beth Randall for continued improvements to the CorpusSearch program.

• Blaise Information Systems for quick and accurate data entry.

• 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, Alastair Butler, and Aaron Ecay, thereby allowing us to improve the quality of the corpus over time.