CausalTimeBank (CTB)

CausalTimeBank extends the TempEval-3 TimeBank corpus with explicit causal relation annotations between event mentions, linking causality to temporal ordering.

Overview

Domain	News
Year	2014
Sentences	2,201

Tasks & Splits

Task	Train	Test
Causality Detection	1,885	316
Causality Identification	1,885	316

Data Explorer

Causality Detection

Causality Identification

Citation

@inproceedings{mirza:2014a,
  title     = {Annotating {{Causality}} in the {{TempEval-3 Corpus}}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the {{EACL}} 2014 {{Workshop}} on {{Computational Approaches}} to {{Causality}} in {{Language}} ({{CAtoCL}})},
  author    = {Mirza, Paramita and Sprugnoli, Rachele and Tonelli, Sara and Speranza, Manuela},
  editor    = {Kolomiyets, Oleksandr and Moens, Marie-Francine and Palmer, Martha and Pustejovsky, James and Bethard, Steven},
  year      = 2014,
  month     = apr,
  pages     = {10--19},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  address   = {Gothenburg, Sweden},
  doi       = {10.3115/v1/W14-0702},
  urldate   = {2024-09-26}
}