One remarkable extension in version 4.0 was the inclusion of a Coreference Resolution module, based on Relax-Cor, the second-ranked system in CoNLL-2011 shared task 1 http://nlp.lsi.upc.edu/freeling 2 http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/agpl.html (Sapena et al., 2011).
academic shared tasks have a very specific scenario, which does not necessarily match the real-world settings in which a system like FreeLing is required to operate.