# Summary

English-LitBank is a conversion of LitBank, an annotated dataset of 100 works
of English-language fiction to support tasks in natural language processing
and the computational humanities. See https://github.com/dbamman/litbank/

## References

```
@inproceedings{LitBank,
    title = "An Annotated Dataset of Coreference in {E}nglish Literature",
    author = "Bamman, David  and
      Lewke, Olivia  and
      Mansoor, Anya",
    editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta  and
      B{\'e}chet, Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric  and
      Blache, Philippe  and
      Choukri, Khalid  and
      Cieri, Christopher  and
      Declerck, Thierry  and
      Goggi, Sara  and
      Isahara, Hitoshi  and
      Maegaard, Bente  and
      Mariani, Joseph  and
      Mazo, H{\'e}l{\`e}ne  and
      Moreno, Asuncion  and
      Odijk, Jan  and
      Piperidis, Stelios",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
    month = may,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Marseille, France",
    publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.6",
    pages = "44--54",
    abstract = "We present in this work a new dataset of coreference annotations for works of literature in English, covering 29,103 mentions in 210,532 tokens from 100 works of fiction published between 1719 and 1922. This dataset differs from previous coreference corpora in containing documents whose average length (2,105.3 words) is four times longer than other benchmark datasets (463.7 for OntoNotes), and contains examples of difficult coreference problems common in literature. This dataset allows for an evaluation of cross-domain performance for the task of coreference resolution, and analysis into the characteristics of long-distance within-document coreference.",
    language = "English",
    ISBN = "979-10-95546-34-4",
}
```

# Changelog

### 2024-03-28 v1.2
  * initial conversion

```
=== Machine-readable metadata (DO NOT REMOVE!) ================================
Data available since: CorefUD 1.2
License: CC BY 4.0
Includes text: yes
Genre: fiction
Lemmas: automatic
UPOS: automatic
XPOS: automatic
Features: automatic
Relations: automatic
CorefUD contributors: Bamman, David (1); Popel, Martin (2)
Other contributors:
Contributors' affiliations: (1) University of California, Berkeley, School of Information, USA
                            (2) Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Prague, Czechia
Contributing: elsewhere
Contact: dbamman@berkeley.edu
===============================================================================
```