Parsed Early English Books Online - Text Creation Partnership
| Item Name: | Parsed Early English Books Online - Text Creation Partnership |
| Author(s): | Seth Kulick, Neville Ryant, Beatrice Santorini |
| LDC Catalog No.: | LDC2026T09 |
| ISLRN: | 571-055-193-074-3 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.35111/4435-xd71 |
| Release Date: | August 17, 2026 |
| Member Year(s): | 2026 |
| DCMI Type(s): | Software, Text |
| Data Source(s): | fiction, non-fiction, religious texts, varied |
| Application(s): | historical linguistics, machine learning, parsing, part of speech tagging |
| Language(s): | English, Middle English (1100-1500) |
| Language ID(s): | eng, enm |
| License(s): |
LDC User Agreement for Non-Members |
| Online Documentation: | LDC2026T09 Documents |
| Licensing Instructions: | Subscription & Standard Members, and Non-Members |
| Citation: | Kulick, Seth, Neville Ryant, and Beatrice Santorini. Parsed Early English Books Online - Text Creation Partnership LDC2026T09. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 2026. |
| Related Works: | View |
Introduction
Parsed Early English Books Online - Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) was developed by the Linguistic Data Consortium. It is a part-of-speech tagged and syntactically parsed version of the EEBO-TCP collection of Early Modern English texts. The corpus consists of 59,433 texts dating primarily from 1600-1700, with a smaller number of texts from earlier and later periods.
Parsed EEBO-TCP was developed to support research in historical linguistics, the study of English syntax and language change, and natural language processing of historical texts.
Data
The corpus contains 48.6 million parsed sentences (trees) comprising more than 1.5 billion tokens. The parses were produced automatically using a parser trained on the Penn Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English, part of the Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English (LDC2020T16). The automatically generated parses were not manually reviewed.
Parsed EEBO-TCP includes the CorpusSearch 2 program and associated documentation. This tool allows users to search the data for syntactic structure, word sequences and words. An alternative version of CorpusSearch 2 for use on very large corpora is also included in this release.
Text is provided in two formats: part-of-speech tagged text is presented as .pos files, and syntactically parsed text is presented as Penn Treebank-formatted .psd files. All text is UTF-8 encoded.
Samples
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