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Current paper presents the results of a two-year project during which a consortium of the University of Szeged and the MorphoLogic Ltd. Budapest developed a morpho-syntactically parsed and annotated (disambiguated) corpus for Hungarian. For morpho-syntactic encoding, the Hungarian version of MSD (Morpho-Syntactic Description) has been used. The corpus contains texts of five different topic areas: schoolchildren's compositions, fiction, computer-related texts, news, and legal texts. During annotation, linguists have checked the morphosyntactic parsing of each word. Finding part-of-speech tagging (disambiguation) rules by machine learning algorithms was also studied by the researchers of the consortium. Due to the fact that the size of the corpus reaches up to 1 million text words without punctuation characters, it may serve as a reference source for numerous future research applications. The corpus can be obtained freely via Internet for research and educational purposes.