Data · dataset · 2025
Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English
Listed in UC Berkeley Library Dataverse
Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English was developed at the University of Pennsylvania and consists of running texts and text samples of British English prose from the earliest Middle English documents (1100 CE) up to the period of the First World War (1914 CE).
Description
This data set contains three corpora covering traditionally recognized periods of English: The Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English, second edition The Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English The Penn Parsed Corpus of Modern British English, second edition Also included in this release are annotation guidelines and philological information for each corpus and the CorpusSearch 2 program, which allows users to search the data for words, word sequences and syntactic structure.
The Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English were designed for students and scholars of the history of English, especially the historical syntax of the language. They have also been used by computational linguists for domain adaptation. See the Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English homepage for more information about this project.
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Where it is published
- Dataverse dataset page datasets.lib.berkeley.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi%3A10.60503%2FD3%2F6UGSAG ↗
landing page · from datasets lib berkeley edu
- DOI doi.org/10.60503/d3/6ugsag ↗
DOI / persistent id · from datasets lib berkeley edu
Catalogue records · 1
- Dataverse API datasets.lib.berkeley.edu/api/datasets/:persistentId/?persistentId=doi%3A10.60503%2FD3%2… ↗
metadata API · from datasets lib berkeley edu
Topics
- Stated by source
- Social Sciences
- From keywords
- Social Science
- Inferred from text
- Text 75%
Provenance · 1 source records, 9 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley Library Dataverse | doi:10.60503/D3/6UGSAG | 10 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| concepts[field].dataverse_subject:social-sciences | source · datasets lib berkeley edu | connector:datasets_lib_berkeley_edu@1.0.0 | /subjects |
| concepts[field].local:field:social-science | mapping · datasets lib berkeley edu | connector:datasets_lib_berkeley_edu@1.0.0 | /subjects |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:text | enrichment · datasets lib berkeley edu | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| created_date | source · datasets lib berkeley edu | connector:datasets_lib_berkeley_edu@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · datasets lib berkeley edu | connector:datasets_lib_berkeley_edu@1.0.0 | /description |
| publication_date | source · datasets lib berkeley edu | connector:datasets_lib_berkeley_edu@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · datasets lib berkeley edu | connector:datasets_lib_berkeley_edu@1.0.0 | /name |
| updated_date | source · datasets lib berkeley edu | connector:datasets_lib_berkeley_edu@1.0.0 | |
| version_label | source · datasets lib berkeley edu | connector:datasets_lib_berkeley_edu@1.0.0 |