ANCOR_Centre, a Large Free Spoken French Coreference Corpus: description of the Resource and Reliability Measures

Judith Muzerelle (1) , Anaïs Lefeuvre (2) , Emmanuel Schang (1) , Jean-Yves Antoine (2) , Aurore Pelletier (1) , Denis Maurel (2) , Iris Eshkol (1) , Jeanne Villaneau (3)

1 LLL - Laboratoire Ligérien de Linguistique
2 BDTLN - Bases de données et traitement des langues naturelles
3 SEASIDE - SEarch, Analyze, Synthesize and Interact with Data Ecosystems

This article presents ANCOR_Centre, a French coreference corpus, available under the Creative Commons Licence. With a size of around 500,000 words, the corpus is large enough to serve the needs of data-driven approaches in NLP and represents one of the largest coreference resources currently available. The corpus focuses exclusively on spoken language, it aims at representing a certain variety of spoken genders. ANCOR_Centre includes anaphora as well as coreference relations which involve nominal and pronominal mentions. The paper describes into details the annotation scheme and the reliability measures computed on the resource.

Mots clés: French spoken language; free annotated corpus; coreference; anaphora

Domaines: Informatique et langage [cs.CL]

Judith Muzerelle, Anaïs Lefeuvre, Emmanuel Schang, Jean-Yves Antoine, Aurore Pelletier, et al.. ANCOR_Centre, a Large Free Spoken French Coreference Corpus: description of the Resource and Reliability Measures. LREC'2014, 9th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference., May 2014, Reyjavik, Iceland. pp.843-847. ⟨hal-01075679⟩