cff-version: 1.2.0
title: "COLE: a Comprehensive Benchmark for French Language Understanding Evaluation"
message: "If you use COLE in your research, please cite our paper."
type: software
authors:
  - given-names: David
    family-names: Beauchemin
    affiliation: Université Laval
  - given-names: Yan
    family-names: Tremblay
    affiliation: Université Laval
  - given-names: Mohamed Amine
    family-names: Youssef
    affiliation: Université Laval
  - given-names: Richard
    family-names: Khoury
    affiliation: Université Laval
repository-code: "https://github.com/GRAAL-Research/COLE"
url: "https://colebenchmark.org"
license: MIT
version: 1.0.0
date-released: "2025-10-07"
preferred-citation:
  type: article
  title: "COLE: a Comprehensive Benchmark for French Language Understanding Evaluation"
  authors:
    - given-names: David
      family-names: Beauchemin
    - given-names: Yan
      family-names: Tremblay
    - given-names: Mohamed Amine
      family-names: Youssef
    - given-names: Richard
      family-names: Khoury
  year: 2025
  url: "https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05046"
  identifiers:
    - type: other
      value: "arXiv:2510.05046"
      description: arXiv preprint