README.md

metadata

license: cc-by-4.0
language:
  - en
  - es
  - id
  - it
  - ko
  - nl
  - zh
tags:
  - Coreference Resolution
  - NER
pretty_name: GOLEMcoref

GOLEMcoref

Dataset Summary

This repository provides a standardized and reformatted version of the original GOLEMcoref coreference resolution dataset.

The purpose of this formatting is to provide a unified document structure across multiple coreference datasets in order to simplify:

• cross-dataset comparison,
• multilingual experimentation,
• benchmarking of coreference resolution systems,
• interoperability between NLP pipelines,
• and reproducible evaluation settings.

This repository does not introduce new annotations. It only restructures the original dataset into a shared schema used across our benchmarking framework. Split Antecedents are ignored.

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Original Dataset

This formatted version is derived from the dataset introduced in:

Andreas Van Cranenburgh ; et al. 2026. GOLEMcoref: A Multilingual Coreference Dataset of Fiction.

Original Repository

https://github.com/GOLEM-lab/GOLEMcoref

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite the original work:

@inproceedings{van-cranenburgh-etal-2026-golemcoref,
    title = "{GOLEM}coref: A Multilingual Coreference Dataset of Fiction",
    author = "Van Cranenburgh, Andreas  and
      Yang, Xiaoyan  and
      Alvanita  and
      Di Domenico, Cecilia Nicole  and
      Ferragud, Maria  and
      Graciotti, Arianna  and
      Kim, Byungjun  and
      Park, Seonyeong  and
      Solissa, Noa Visser  and
      Zhou, Xiaoyu  and
      Pianzola, Federico",
    editor = "Liakata, Maria  and
      Moreira, Viviane P.  and
      Zhang, Jiajun  and
      Jurgens, David",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2026",
    address = "San Diego, California, United States",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.39/",
    pages = "472--480",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-391-3",
}

• What is GOLEMcoref?
  • It is a gold standard benchmark for coreference resolution in 7 languages: Bahasa Indonesia, Chinese, Dutch, English, Italian, Korean, Spanish (--> data/gold_annotations).
  • It contains fictional short stories sourced from 3 popular fanfiction platforms: Archive of Our Own (AO3), Postype, and Wattpad.
  • It is the first of its kind offering multilingual coverage for fictional literature.
  • It includes complete works.
  • It is a gold standard: it is fully annotated and curated by humanas following specialised guidelines (--> guidelines) and accompanied by a report discussing annotation challenges (--> report).

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Statistics

Statistic	Value
Language	en, es, id, it, ko, nl, zh
Documents	230
Sentences	55,652
Tokens	811,389
Characters	3,407,934
Mentions	102,682
Entities	4,942

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Dataset Structure

Each document contains:

• file_name
• language
• text
• tokens_count
• mentions
• sentence_spans

Mentions

Each mention contains the following fields and additional fields per-dataset:

• onset
• offset
• COREF

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Example