Dave (et al),
Apologies for the delay in responding to your message.
We are releasing the data in conjunction with the Linguistic Data
Consortium. Full information for obtaining the corpus can be found at
http://ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2008T19
Thanks for your interest,
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Evan Sandhaus
Semantic Technologist
Research & Development Operations
New York Times Company