EventStoryLine (ESL)

EventStoryLine annotates causal and temporal relations between events in 58 topics of ECB+ news clusters, targeting cross-document event coreference and storyline extraction.

Overview

Domain	News
Year	2017
Sentences	2,247

Tasks & Splits

Task	Train	Test
Causality Detection	2,014	233
Causality Identification	2,014	233

Data Explorer

Causality Detection

Causality Identification

Citation

@inproceedings{caselli:2017,
  title      = {The {{Event StoryLine Corpus}}: {{A New Benchmark}} for {{Causal}} and {{Temporal Relation Extraction}}},
  shorttitle = {The {{Event StoryLine Corpus}}},
  booktitle  = {Proceedings of the {{Events}} and {{Stories}} in the {{News Workshop}}@{{ACL}} 2017, {{Vancouver}}, {{Canada}}, {{August}} 4, 2017},
  author     = {Caselli, Tommaso and Vossen, Piek},
  editor     = {Caselli, Tommaso and Miller, Ben and van Erp, Marieke and Vossen, Piek and Palmer, Martha and Hovy, Eduard H. and Mitamura, Teruko and Caswell, David},
  year       = 2017,
  pages      = {77--86},
  publisher  = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  doi        = {10.18653/V1/W17-2711},
  urldate    = {2024-07-22}
}