With the exception of the tabular file data_jenset_mcgillivray_downsampling.tsv, the dataset “Background data (adapted from Jenset & McGillivray 2017) for: Down-sampling from hierarchically structured corpus data” has been marked as dedicated to the public domain, as described here: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/.
The tabular file data_jenset_mcgillivray_downsampling.tsv constitutes an adaptation of a dataset published by Gard Jenset on GitHub in 2018 ("Jenset 2018"), available at https://github.com/gjenset/quanthistbook/tree/master/eme_v3sng_study. Material has been adapted from Jenset 2018, as documented in the ReadMe file included in the present dataset, under a MIT License. Contributions made by the author of the present dataset to the adaptation are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, as described here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Reusers of the adapted work must comply with both this CC license and the original MIT License:
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Data included in Jenset 2018 were in turn derived from The Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English (PPCEME), available here: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/ppche/ppche-release-2016/PPCEME-RELEASE-3. Note that the MIT License under which Jenset 2018 is made available cannot be considered to apply to text fragments extracted from PPCEME.