Merge pull request #36 from msg-systems/development

Add support for French and prepare for release 1.1.2

Author: richardpaulhudson

README.md

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 Coreferences are situations where two or more words within a text refer to the same entity, e.g. *__John__ went home because __he__ was tired*. Resolving coreferences is an important general task within the natural language processing field.
 
-<b>Coreferee</b> is a Python 3 library (tested with version 3.9.5) that is used together with [spaCy](https://spacy.io/) (tested with version 3.1.2) to resolve coreferences within English, German and Polish texts. It is designed so that it is easy to add support for new languages. It uses a mixture of neural networks and programmed rules.
+<b>Coreferee</b> is a Python 3 library (tested with version 3.9.5) that is used together with [spaCy](https://spacy.io/) (tested with version 3.1.2) to resolve coreferences within English, German, Polish and French texts. It is designed so that it is easy to add support for new languages. It uses a mixture of neural networks and programmed rules.
 
 For more information, please see the [main documentation on GitHub](https://github.com/msg-systems/coreferee).

SHORTREADME.md

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 2) Offene Daten Köln (https://offenedaten-koeln.de/dataset/vornamen) released under the CC BY 3.0 DE 'Namensnennung 3.0 Deutschland' license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de/legalcode)
 
 3) Polish government data 'Lista imion występujących w rejestrze PESEL z uwzględnieniem imion osób zmarłych' (https://dane.gov.pl/en/dataset/1501,lista-imion-wystepujacych-w-rejestrze-pesel) published with no restrictions on reuse
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+4) French governement data 'Liste de Prénoms' (https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/liste-de-prenoms/)