Causal News Corpus V2 / RECESS (CNCv2)

Intra-sentence No Polarity Signal No Strength Signal

The "V2" release of the Causal News Corpus — published as RECESS — annotates causal event sentences drawn from news, with span-level cause/effect/signal annotations for a much larger share of causal sentences than the original 2022 release.

This is the actively-maintained release the maintainers themselves recommend using ("For 2023 Shared Task, please use V2"), with far richer span annotations (2257 causal relations) than CNC, the original 2022 release (183 causal relations) — kept as its own separate dataset for comparison rather than silently overwritten.

Overview

Domain	News
Year	2023
Sentences	3,415
Granularity	Intra-sentence

Tasks & Splits

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

Data Explorer

Causality Detection

Causal Event Candidate Extraction

Causality Identification

Citation

@inproceedings{tan:2023,
  title = {{{RECESS}}: {{Resource}} for {{Extracting Cause}}, {{Effect}}, and {{Signal Spans}}},
  shorttitle = {{{RECESS}}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 13th {{International Joint Conference}} on {{Natural Language Processing}} and the 3rd {{Conference}} of the {{Asia-Pacific Chapter}} of the {{Association}} for {{Computational Linguistics}}, {{IJCNLP}} 2023 -{{Volume}} 1: {{Long Papers}}, {{Nusa Dua}}, {{Bali}}, {{November}} 1 - 4, 2023},
  author = {Tan, Fiona Anting and Hettiarachchi, Hansi and H{\"u}rriyetoglu, Ali and Oostdijk, Nelleke and Caselli, Tommaso and Nomoto, Tadashi and Uca, Onur and Liza, Farhana Ferdousi and Ng, See-Kiong},
  editor = {Park, Jong C. and Arase, Yuki and Hu, Baotian and Lu, Wei and Wijaya, Derry and Purwarianti, Ayu and Krisnadhi, Adila Alfa},
  year = 2023,
  pages = {66--82},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  doi = {10.18653/V1/2023.IJCNLP-MAIN.6},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.ijcnlp-main.6},
  urldate = {2024-09-03}
}