#!/usr/bin/env python3 """ Run this script as ./conversion_script.py to convert the Causal News Corpus (CNC) "V2" -- published as RECESS -- DIRECTLY from its original repository. ``UniCausal2HF`` already reads a CSV given any path/URL pandas' own ``read_csv`` accepts, so no manual download/caching step is needed; point it straight at the raw GitHub URLs. Citation / original source --------------------------- Tan, F. A., Hettiarachchi, H., Hürriyetoğlu, A., Oostdijk, N., Caselli, T., Nomoto, T., Uca, O., Liza, F. F., & Ng, S.-K. (2023). "RECESS: Resource for Extracting Cause, Effect, and Signal Spans." IJCNLP-AACL 2023. https://aclanthology.org/2023.ijcnlp-main.6/ Repo (verified live, public, no login): github.com/tanfiona/CausalNewsCorpus License: CC0-1.0 (verified via GitHub API) -- public domain, no restrictions. This is the actively-maintained release -- the maintainers themselves recommend using it over the original 2022 "V1" release ("For 2023 Shared Task, please use V2" -- repo README): far richer span annotations (subtask 2, Cause/Effect/Signal), 2257 causal relations vs. V1's 183 (verified: `train_subtask2_grouped.csv` + `dev_subtask2_grouped.csv` row counts). See ../CNC/conversion_script.py for V1, kept as its own separate dataset for comparison rather than silently overwritten by this newer version. Format: the ``_grouped`` CSVs already match causalatee's ``UniCausal2HF`` grouped format exactly (one row per sentence; ``causal_text_w_pairs`` is a Python-repr'd list of 0+ independently //-tagged copies of that row's ``text``, one per causal relation -- ARG0=cause, ARG1=effect, confirmed against real "because"/"due to" examples) -- see causalatee/data/conversion/_unicausal2hf.py for the shared parsing logic (also used by BECauSEv2, AltLex). No usable test split: the real held-out test set (``test_subtask2_text.csv``) has NO gold labels at all and never will -- confirmed directly from data/V2/README.md: "We will not release the test labels this year as we might intend to rerun this Shared Task next year." Mapped here as: upstream train -> causalatee train, upstream dev -> causalatee dev.parquet -- written as ``dev.parquet``, NOT ``test.parquet`` (fixed 2026-07-20; previously written as test.parquet, which claimed a real held-out test set exists when it's actually the upstream dev split). `with_validation_split` in the evaluation harness treats a dataset with dev but no test as: promote this dev to serve as the final eval target, and carve a FRESH validation split out of train for early stopping instead, so the promoted dev is never touched during training either way -- see its docstring. """ from pathlib import Path from causalatee.data.constants import Task from causalatee.data.conversion import UniCausal2HF _BASE_URL = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tanfiona/CausalNewsCorpus/master/data/V2" converter = UniCausal2HF( { "train": f"{_BASE_URL}/train_subtask2_grouped.csv", "dev": f"{_BASE_URL}/dev_subtask2_grouped.csv", }, Path.cwd(), ) for split in ["train", "dev"]: converter.convert(Task.CausalityDetection, split) converter.convert(Task.CausalCandidateExtraction, split) converter.convert(Task.CausalityIdentification, split)