---
# license: mit  # TODO: verify — https://github.com/chridey/altlex
task_categories:
- text-classification
- token-classification
language:
- en
multilinguality:
- monolingual
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
tags:
- causality
pretty_name: AltLex
configs:
- config_name: causality detection
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: causality-detection/train.parquet
  - split: test
    path: causality-detection/test.parquet
  features:
  - name: index
    dtype: string
  - name: text
    dtype: string
  - name: label
    dtype:
      class_label:
        names:
          '0': uncausal
          '1': causal
- config_name: causal candidate extraction
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: causal-candidate-extraction/train.parquet
  - split: test
    path: causal-candidate-extraction/test.parquet
  features:
    - name: index
      dtype: string
    - name: text
      dtype: string
    - name: entity
      sequence:
        sequence: int32
- config_name: causality identification
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: causality-identification/train.parquet
  - split: test
    path: causality-identification/test.parquet
  features:
  - name: index
    dtype: string
  - name: text
    dtype: string
  - name: relations
    list:
    - name: relationship
      dtype:
        class_label:
          names:
            '0': no-rel
            '1': causal
    - name: first
      dtype: string
    - name: second
      dtype: string
train-eval-index:
- config: causality detection
  task: text-classification
  task_id: text_classification
  splits:
    train_split: train
    eval_split: test
  col_mapping:
    text: text
    label: label
  metrics:
  - type: accuracy
  - type: precision
  - type: recall
  - type: f1
- config: causal candidate extraction
  task: token-classification
  task_id: token_classification
  splits:
    train_split: train
    eval_split: test
  metrics:
  - type: accuracy
  - type: precision
  - type: recall
  - type: f1
- config: causality identification
  task: text-classification
  task_id: text_classification
  splits:
    train_split: train
    eval_split: test
  metrics:
  - type: accuracy
  - type: precision
  - type: recall
  - type: f1
---

> [!NOTE]  
> This repository integrates the AltLex corpus into hf datasets. Please find the original dataset
> [here](https://github.com/chridey/altlex). We used the [UniCausal](https://github.com/tanfiona/UniCausal/tree/main/data/grouped/splits) reformatting of the data as the basis
> for this repository. Please see the [citations](#citations) at the end of this README.

## Dataset Description

- **Repository:** https://github.com/chridey/altlex
- **Paper:** [Identifying Causal Relations Using Parallel Wikipedia Articles](https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/P16-1135)

# Usage
## Causality Detection
```py
from datasets import load_dataset
dataset = load_dataset("thagen/AltLex", "causality detection")
```

## Causal Candidate Extraction
```py
from datasets import load_dataset
dataset = load_dataset("thagen/AltLex", "causal candidate extraction")
```

## Causality Identification
```py
from datasets import load_dataset
dataset = load_dataset("thagen/AltLex", "causality identification")
```

# Citations

The AltLex paper by [Hidey and McKeown, 2016](https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/P16-1135):
```bib
@inproceedings{hidey:2016,
  title = {Identifying Causal Relations Using Parallel {Wikipedia} Articles},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)},
  author = {Hidey, Christopher and McKeown, Kathleen},
  year = {2016},
  pages = {1424--1433},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/P16-1135}
}
```

UniCausal by [Tan et al., 2023](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-39831-5_23) &mdash; who's dataformat we used to make AltLex compatible with hf datasets:
```bib
@inproceedings{tan:2023,
  title = {{{UniCausal}}: {{Unified Benchmark}} and {{Repository}} for {{Causal Text Mining}}},
  shorttitle = {{{UniCausal}}},
  booktitle = {Big {{Data Analytics}} and {{Knowledge Discovery}} - 25th {{International Conference}}, {{DaWaK}} 2023, {{Penang}}, {{Malaysia}}, {{August}} 28-30, 2023, {{Proceedings}}},
  author = {Tan, Fiona Anting and Zuo, Xinyu and Ng, See-Kiong},
  editor = {Wrembel, Robert and Gamper, Johann and Kotsis, Gabriele and Tjoa, A. Min and Khalil, Ismail},
  year = {2023},
  series = {Lecture {{Notes}} in {{Computer Science}}},
  volume = {14148},
  pages = {248--262},
  publisher = {Springer},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-39831-5_23}
}
```