Austen Re-Genderizer

[arnicas]

I'm working on a way to let people set the gender/pronouns/names for characters in Jane Austen books. It seems like it might be easy (just some swaps) until you look at the coreference problems in detail. It took me a year to label/correct Pride & Prejudice and I still have bugs!

The draft data, code, and output is at https://github.com/arnicas/austen-regenderizer.

Examples

Note that Mrs Long and the Bingley sisters retain their original identities... this is part of what makes this hard ;)

Chapter 1

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a husband. However little known the feelings or views of such a woman may be on her first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that she is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their sons.

"My dear Mrs. Bennet," said her gentleman to her one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?" Mrs. Bennet replied that she had not.

"But it is," returned he; "for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me all about it." Mrs. Bennet made no answer.

"Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried her husband impatiently.

Chapter 2

"Oh! my dear, I am quite delighted with her. She is so excessively handsome! And her sisters are charming women. I never in my life saw anything more elegant than their dresses. I dare say the lace upon Mrs. Hurst's gown --"

Here he was interrupted again. Mrs. Bennet protested against any description of finery. He was therefore obliged to seek another branch of the subject, and related, with much bitterness of spirit and some exaggeration, the shocking rudeness of Miss Darcy.

"But I can assure you," he added, "that Eddie does not lose much by not suiting her fancy; for she is a most disagreeable, horrid woman, not at all worth pleasing. So high and so conceited that there was no enduring her! She walked here, and she walked there, fancying herself so very great! Not handsome enough to dance with! I wish you had been there, my dear, to have given her one of your set-downs. I quite detest the woman."

[lizadaly]

Wow!

[arnicas]

Wow!

Thanks, Liza! More to come as I fix it up and add a UI :)