### 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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