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LitBank
LitBank is an annotated dataset of 100 works of English-language fiction to support tasks in natural language processing and the computational humanities, described in more detail in the following publications:
- David Bamman, Sejal Popat and Sheng Shen (2019), "An Annotated Dataset of Literary Entities," NAACL 2019.
- Matthew Sims, Jong Ho Park and David Bamman (2019), "Literary Event Detection," ACL 2019.
- David Bamman, Olivia Lewke and Anya Mansoor (2020), "An Annotated Dataset of Coreference in English Literature", LREC.
LitBank currently contains annotations for entities, events, entity coreference, and quotation attribution in a sample of ~2,000 words from each of those texts, totaling 210,532 tokens.
LitBank is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
All 1 leaderboard whose dataset resolves to this page shown (sort by any header). "First row" is the archive's own first row at snapshot, in the archive's row order; nothing here re-ranks and metric direction is not asserted.
| First row (archive order) | Paper | Code | ||||
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| Coreference Resolution | LitBank | Maverick_incr Avg F1 78.3 | Maverick: Efficient and Accurate Coreference Resolution... | sapienzanlp/maverick-coref | 2 | Compare |
Papers archive 2025-07-28
2 shown of 2 papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 23. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.
| Date | Samples run Syntology | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maverick: Efficient and Accurate Coreference Resolution Defying Recent Trends | 1 | 1 | 31 Jul 2024 | ran 5 of 11 samples (6 unverified; 11 pointer-only for licence) |
| On Generalization in Coreference Resolution | 2 | 1 | 20 Sep 2021 | not harvested |
Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28
1 loader as listed in the archive; links are outbound and not re-checked here.
Tasks archive 2025-07-28
License archive 2025-07-28
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Modalities archive 2025-07-28
Languages archive 2025-07-28
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Variants archive 2025-07-28
- LitBank
1 variant name, as the archive lists them.
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