Antoine Bourgois

Antoine Bourgois

PhD student in Natural Language Processing
Lattice (CNRS, ENS-PSL, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)

I work on coreference resolution and the computational analysis of French literature.

About

My research looks at how to track characters across entire novels. Most coreference systems are built for short documents, so I build models and annotated corpora for book-length French fiction, then use the output for literary questions such as character gender and narrative structure.

Coreference resolution Computational literary studies French fiction Long-document NLP Narrative analysis

Software

Propp: Pattern Recognition and Ontologies for Prose Processing

A Natural Language Processing framework for narrative analysis. Includes the trained French coreference pipeline, available as the open-source propp_fr Python library.

GitHub repository Documentation

Publications

2026

Closing the Gap at CRAC 2026: Two-Stage Adaptation for LLM-Based Multilingual Coreference Resolution

Antoine Bourgois, Olga Seminck, Thierry Poibeau

Proceedings of the 2nd Joint Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse, Context and Document-Level Inferences and Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CODI-CRAC 2026), San Diego, California, USA.

Article
2026

Toward an Ontological Representation of Fictional Characters

Antoine Bourgois, Jean Barré, Olga Seminck, Thierry Poibeau

Journal of Computational Humanities Research, 2026, 1–15.

Article
2025

Modeling the Construction of a Literary Archetype: The Case of the Detective Figure in French Literature

Jean Barré, Olga Seminck, Antoine Bourgois, Thierry Poibeau

Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, Vol. 3, 2025, pp. 983–999.

Article
2025

The Elephant in the Coreference Room: Resolving Coreference in Full-Length French Fiction Works

Antoine Bourgois and Thierry Poibeau

Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CRAC 2025), EMNLP 2025, Suzhou, China.

PDF arXiv HAL Poster
2025

GLaRef@CRAC2025: Should We Transform Coreference Resolution into a Text Generation Task?

Olga Seminck, Antoine Bourgois, Yoann Dupont, Mathieu Dehouck, Marine Delaborde

Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CRAC 2025), EMNLP 2025, Suzhou, China.

PDF Presentation Slides

Talks

2025

BookNLP-fr : Chaîne d'analyse computationnelle des œuvres de fiction française

Séminaire « Interprétations artificielles », CSLF et MSH Mondes, 20 mars 2025.

Contact

antoine [dot] bourgois [at] protonmail [dot] com