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    Language, speech & LLMs· 1993

    Building a Large Annotated Corpus of English: The Penn Treebank

    Mitchell P. Marcus (first author) · 1993

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    DOI 10.21236/ada273556OpenAlex W1632114991

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    Why it matters

    Established the Penn Treebank, enabling data-driven parsing and standardized syntactic evaluation.

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    First released
    1993 (from Crossref)
    Citations
    9,337 citations, as counted by Semantic Scholar logoSemantic Scholar (non-commercial licence)
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    both expert lists
    Score
    0.549 · computed rank 190 · consensus 0.65, must-read 1, citations percentile 0.727 (1990s · language), awards 0, existing lists 0. Method

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    • Readability check: fail: A corpus description. (AI draft (Claude), not yet reviewed, 2026-10-29)

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