PPCME2

Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English, 2nd edition, release 4

Citation

Kroch, Anthony, and Ann Taylor. 2000-. The Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English (PPCME2), 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 Science Foundation for NSF Grants BNS 89-19701 and SBR 95-11368.

  • The University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation for supplementary support.

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

  • Our colleagues at the University of Helsinki, especially to Prof. Matti Rissanen, the project’s emeritus director, for his permission to use the Middle English part of the Helsinki Corpus of English and for his enthusiasm toward our project, though it was far from his own interests; also to Dr. Merya Kytö.

  • Mike Collins, now of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, for permission to use his Penn dissertation parser and for adapting it to our needs.

  • Beth Randall for writing the CorpusSearch program, without which the corpus would not be useable for research.

  • Rhona Alcorn and Robert Truswell for their help in parsing a few recalcitrant passages.

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