README.md

---
license: cc-by-nc-4.0
task_categories:
- text-classification
- token-classification
language:
- en
multilinguality:
- monolingual
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
tags:
- causality
pretty_name: SCITE
paperswithcode_id: ../paper/causality-extraction-based-on-self-attentive
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: tokens
      sequence: 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  # Does not really make sense but exists to have the same labels as the classification task
            '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 SCITE extended [SemEval 2010 Task 8](https://aclanthology.org/S10-1006/) dataset into hf datasets. It is in conformance with SCITE's CC BY-NC 4.0 license. Please find the original dataset
> [here](https://github.com/Das-Boot/scite). Please see the [citations](#citations) at the end of this README.


## Dataset Description

- **Repository:** https://github.com/Das-Boot/scite/tree/master
- **Paper:** [Causality extraction based on self-attentive BiLSTM-CRF with transferred embeddings](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2020.08.078)

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

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

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

# Citations

The SCITE paper by [Li et al., 2021](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925231220316027):
```bib
@article{li:2021,
  title = {Causality Extraction Based on Self-Attentive {{BiLSTM-CRF}} with Transferred Embeddings},
  author = {Li, Zhaoning and Li, Qi and Zou, Xiaotian and Ren, Jiangtao},
  year = {2021},
  journal = {Neurocomputing},
  volume = {423},
  pages = {207--219},
  doi = {10.1016/J.NEUCOM.2020.08.078}
}
```

SemEval 2010 Task 8 by [Hendrickx et al., 2010](https://aclanthology.org/S10-1006/) which SCITE builds upon:
```bib
@inproceedings{hendrickx:2010,
  title = {{{SemEval-2010 Task}} 8: {{Multi-Way Classification}} of {{Semantic Relations}} between {{Pairs}} of {{Nominals}}},
  shorttitle = {{{SemEval-2010 Task}} 8},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th {{International Workshop}} on {{Semantic Evaluation}}, {{SemEval}}@{{ACL}} 2010, {{Uppsala University}}, {{Uppsala}}, {{Sweden}}, {{July}} 15-16, 2010},
  author = {Hendrickx, Iris and Kim, Su Nam and Kozareva, Zornitsa and Nakov, Preslav and S{\'e}aghdha, Diarmuid {\'O} and Pad{\'o}, Sebastian and Pennacchiotti, Marco and Romano, Lorenza and Szpakowicz, Stan},
  editor = {Erk, Katrin and Strapparava, Carlo},
  year = {2010},
  pages = {33--38},
  publisher = {The Association for Computer Linguistics}
}
```