The Elephant in the Coreference Room: Resolving Coreference in Full-Length French Fiction Works

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15594v1
• Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 12:40:33 GMT
• Title: The Elephant in the Coreference Room: Resolving Coreference in Full-Length French Fiction Works
• Authors: Antoine Bourgois, Thierry Poibeau,
• Abstract summary: We introduce a new annotated corpus of three full-length French novels, totaling over 285,000 tokens.<n>Unlike previous datasets focused on shorter texts, our corpus addresses the challenges posed by long, complex literary works.<n>We show that our approach is competitive and scales effectively to long documents.
• Score: 2.6547708221528987
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: While coreference resolution is attracting more interest than ever from computational literature researchers, representative datasets of fully annotated long documents remain surprisingly scarce. In this paper, we introduce a new annotated corpus of three full-length French novels, totaling over 285,000 tokens. Unlike previous datasets focused on shorter texts, our corpus addresses the challenges posed by long, complex literary works, enabling evaluation of coreference models in the context of long reference chains. We present a modular coreference resolution pipeline that allows for fine-grained error analysis. We show that our approach is competitive and scales effectively to long documents. Finally, we demonstrate its usefulness to infer the gender of fictional characters, showcasing its relevance for both literary analysis and downstream NLP tasks.

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