The York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose (YCOE)

Ann Taylor, Anthony Warner, Susan Pintzuk, Frank Beths
Department of Language and Linguistic Science
University of York
Heslington, York
England YO10 5DD
© 2003 University of York




The York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose (YCOE) is a 1.5 million word syntactically-annotated corpus of Old English prose texts. As a sister corpus to the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English (PPCME2), it uses the same form of annotation and is accessed by the same search engine, CorpusSearch. The YCOE was created with a grant from the English Arts and Humanities Research Board (B/RG/AN5907/APN9528).

The corpus itself (the annotated text files) is distributed by the Oxford Text Archive and can be obtained from them free of charge for non-commercial use. All the documentation associated with the corpus is available here.

Please direct any mail about the YCOE to at9@york.ac.uk. We would appreciate receiving copies of (or at least details about) any publications which make use of the corpus.