AltLex

Intra-sentence No Polarity Signal No Strength Signal

AltLex is a Wikipedia-based corpus of 1,000 sentences annotated for causal relations identified through alternative lexicalizations — causal markers beyond the canonical connectives because, so, and since.

Overview

Domain	Wikipedia
Year	2016
Sentences	1,000
Granularity	Intra-sentence

Tasks & Splits

Task	Train	Test
Causality Detection	596	404
Causal Event Candidate Extraction	596	404
Causality Identification	596	404
Causality Extraction	—	—

Data Explorer

Causality Detection

Causal Event Candidate Extraction

Causality Identification

Citation

@inproceedings{hidey:2016,
  title     = {Identifying {{Causal Relations Using Parallel Wikipedia Articles}}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 54th {{Annual Meeting}} of the {{Association}} for {{Computational Linguistics}}, {{ACL}} 2016, {{August}} 7-12, 2016, {{Berlin}}, {{Germany}}, {{Volume}} 1: {{Long Papers}}},
  author    = {Hidey, Christopher and McKeown, Kathy},
  year      = 2016,
  publisher = {The Association for Computer Linguistics},
  doi       = {10.18653/V1/P16-1135},
  urldate   = {2024-07-22}
}