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.
https://www.ling.upenn.edu/ppche/ppche-release-2016/PPCMBE2-RELEASE-1.
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 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.