The Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Modern British English

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title
  • The Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Modern British English
title.abbreviation
title.alternative
  • PPCMBE
creator
  • researcher Professor Anthony Kroch (project leader, University of Pennsylvania)
  • researcher Dr Beatrice Santorini (University of Pennsylvania)
  • researcher Ariel Diertani (University of Pennsylvania)
subject
  • syntactically annotated corpus
subject.linguisticField
  • computational_linguistics
  • historical_linguistics
  • morphology
  • syntax
subject.monoMultilingual
  • monolingual
subject.resourceSubject
  • corpus
description
  • The PPCMBE corpus is part of an ongoing larger project at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of York to produce syntactically annotated corpora for all stages of the history of English, consisting of around one million words.
description.price *This metadata is only as a guide
  • The PPCMBE is sold as a sub-corpus of the Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English. The prices described below are for the package including all three subcorpora.
  • Individual license: $450, Departmental/research group license: $700 and Library license: $950.
  • Additional $50 handling and shipping fee is necessary.
  • Commercial users should contact Anthony Kroch (krochATlingDOTupennDOTedu) for terms and pricing. (http://www.ling.upenn.edu/hist-corpora/order-form.html)
description.language
  • English
description.inputDevice
description.inputEnvironment
description.speakingStyle
description.speechMode
description.samplingRate
description.additionalData
publisher
contributor
  • sponsor the National Science Foundation (Grant BCS05-08731)
contributor.attribute.author.motherTongue
  • native
contributor.attribute.author.dialect
contributor.attribute.author.level
contributor.attribute.author.age
contributor.attribute.author.gender
contributor.attribute.speaker.motherTongue
contributor.attribute.speaker.dialect
contributor.attribute.speaker.level
contributor.attribute.speaker.age
contributor.attribute.speaker.gender
contributor.attribute.speaker.number
date.created
date.issued
  • 2010-00-00
date.modified
type
  • Text
type.discourseType
type.linguisticType
  • primary_text
type.purpose
  • analysis
type.style
  • written
type.form
  • unfixed
type.sentence
  • short
  • long
type.annotation
  • annotated POS tags and syntactic tags
type.annotationSample
  • Annotation differences between the PPCME2 and the later corpora: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/hist-corpora/annotation/index.html
    POS tags:
    ADJ : adjective
    ADJR : adjective, comparative
    ADJS : adjective, superlative
    ADV : adverb
    ADVR : adverb, comparative
    ADVS : adverb, superlative
    ALSO : the words ALSO (except when = AS) and EKE (the latter only in Middle English)
    BAG : BE, present participle
    BE : BE, infinitive
    BED : BE, past (including past subjunctive)
    BEI : BE, imperative
    BEN : BE, perfect participle
    BEP : BE, present (including present subjunctive)
    The rest is omitted.
    Syntactic tags:
    ADJP: adjective phrase
    ADJP-LOC: locative adjective phrase
    ADJP-SPR: adjective phrase, secondary predicate
    ADJX : adjectival constituent, ambiguous projection (ADJ, ADJ', or ADJP)
    ADVP: adverb phrase
    ADVP-DIR: directional adverb phrase
    ADVP-LOC: locative adverb phrase
    ADVP-TMP: temporal adverb phrase
    ADVX : adverbial constituent, ambiguous projection (ADV, ADV', or ADVP)
    The rest is omitted.

    http://www.ling.upenn.edu/hist-corpora/annotation/index.html
    List of tags and empty categories
type.sample
format.extent
  • Size: c. 1 million words (948,895)
format.medium
  • text (.txt), part-of-speech (POS) tagged (.pos) and parsed (.psd) files on a CD
format.encoding
format.markup
format.functionality
identifier
identifier.doi
identifier.islrn
source
language
  • English Modern British English
language.area
  • Europe UK
relation
relation.utilization *This metadata is automatically extracted
coverage.temporal
  • 1700-1914
coverage.spacial
  • England
rights