---
license: other
task_categories:
- text-classification
- token-classification
language:
- en
multilinguality:
- monolingual
size_categories:
- n<1K
tags:
- causality
pretty_name: EventCausality
configs:
- config_name: causality detection
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: causality-detection/train.parquet
  - split: validation
    path: causality-detection/dev.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: validation
    path: causal-candidate-extraction/dev.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: validation
    path: causality-identification/dev.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 EventCausality corpus into hf datasets. Please find the original dataset
> [here](https://cogcomp.seas.upenn.edu/page/resource_view/27). The data is sourced from the
> [CREST](https://github.com/phosseini/CREST) aggregation. Please see the [citations](#citations) at the end of this README.

## Dataset Description

- **Homepage:** https://cogcomp.seas.upenn.edu/page/resource_view/27
- **Paper:** [Causal Relation Extraction](https://aclanthology.org/D11-1027/)

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

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

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

# Citations

The EventCausality paper by [Do et al., 2011](https://aclanthology.org/D11-1040/):
```bib
@inproceedings{do:2011,
  title = {Minimally {{Supervised Event Causality Identification}}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2011 {{Conference}} on {{Empirical Methods}} in {{Natural Language Processing}}, {{EMNLP}} 2011, 27-31 {{July}} 2011, {{John McIntyre Conference Centre}}, {{Edinburgh}}, {{UK}}, {{A}} Meeting of {{SIGDAT}}, a {{Special Interest Group}} of the {{ACL}}},
  author = {Do, Quang and Chan, Yee Seng and Roth, Dan},
  year = {2011},
  pages = {294--303},
  publisher = {ACL},
  urldate = {2026-01-05}
}
```

CREST by [Hosseini et al., 2021](https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.13606) &mdash; whose aggregation we used to source the EventCausality data:
```bib
@article{hosseini:2021,
  title = {Predicting {{Directionality}} in {{Causal Relations}} in {{Text}}},
  author = {Hosseini, Pedram and Broniatowski, David A. and Diab, Mona T.},
  year = {2021},
  journal = {CoRR},
  volume = {abs/2103.13606},
  eprint = {2103.13606},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv}
}
```