Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English
Second edition
Citation:
Kroch, Anthony, and Ann Taylor. 2000.
Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English, second edition.
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/hist-corpora/PPCME2-RELEASE-2/
Acknowledgments
We are grateful to the following institutions and individuals for their
support.
- The National Science Foundation for NSF Grants BNS89-19701 and SBR95-11368.
- The University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation for supplementary support.
- The users of this corpus for their financial support in purchasing it.
- 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, who allowed us to use his Penn dissertation parser for our
work and adapted it to our needs.
- Beth Randall for writing the CorpusSearch program, which made our
corpus useable for research.
- The students at the University of Pennsylvania who used
the corpus for research projects and alerted us to problems
and errors.
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