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Datasets

All corpora available in the causal toolkit, indexed by supported tasks.

Task codes: D = Detection ยท E = Extraction ยท I = Identification

Dataset Domain Year Sentences Tasks Links
AltLex Wikipedia 2016 1,000 DEI ๐Ÿ“„ ๐Ÿค—
BECauSE 1.0 News / Government 2015 โ€” โ€” ๐Ÿ“„
BECauSE 2.0 News 2017 1,803 DEI ๐Ÿ“„ ๐Ÿค—
BioCause Medical 2013 851 DEI ๐Ÿ“„ ๐Ÿค—
Countercausal News Corpus (CCNC) News 2025 3,415 DEI ๐Ÿ“„
Causal News Corpus (CNC) News 2022 3,248 DEI ๐Ÿค—
Causal News Corpus V2 / RECESS (CNCv2) News 2023 3,415 DEI ๐Ÿ“„ ๐Ÿค—
COPA General 2011 2,000 DEI ๐Ÿค—
CausalTimeBank (CTB) News 2014 2,201 DEI ๐Ÿ“„ ๐Ÿค—
CaTeRS Fiction 2016 488 DEI ๐Ÿ“„ ๐Ÿค—
EventStoryLine (ESL) News 2017 2,247 DEI ๐Ÿ“„ ๐Ÿค—
EventCausality Web 2011 583 DEI ๐Ÿค—
FinCausal 2020 (FinCausal-20) Finance 2020 22,058 DEI ๐Ÿ“„
FinCausal 2023 (FinCausal-23) Financial news 2023 2,630 EI ๐Ÿ“„
Penn Discourse Treebank 3.0 (PDTB 3.0) News / WSJ 2019 โ€” DEI ๐Ÿค—
Penn Discourse Treebank 2.0 (PDTB-2) News / WSJ 2008 โ€” โ€” ๐Ÿ“„
PolitiCause Politics 2024 17,780 DEI ๐Ÿ“„
PubMedCausal Biomedical 2026 30,000 DEI ๐Ÿ“„ ๐Ÿค—
SCITE Science 2021 5,236 DEI ๐Ÿ“„ ๐Ÿค—
SemEval-2007 Task 4 Web 2007 220 DEI
SemEval-2010 Task 8 General 2010 10,690 DEI ๐Ÿค—
SemEval-2020 Task 5 News 2020 20,000 DEI ๐Ÿ“„
SemEval-2023 Task 8 (RedHOT) Social media / Medical 2023 โ€” โ€” ๐Ÿ“„
TCR News 2018 172 DEI ๐Ÿ“„ ๐Ÿค—
UniCausal Multiple 2023 14,903 DEI ๐Ÿ“„