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Causality

Causality

Definition

The best operational definition for annotating causality in text comes from this paper: Ikuta 2014
- The definition is X CAUSES Y “if, according to the writer, the particular EVENT Y was inevitable given the particular EVENT X.”
- They also operationalize PRECONDITION as “had the particular EVENT X not happened, the particular EVENT Y would not have happened.” See O’Gorman et al 2016.

Papers

Ikuta et al 2014- Challenges of Adding Causation to Richer Event Descriptions
O’Gorman et al 2016 - Richer Event Description: Integrating event coreference with temporal, causal and bridging annotation

Workshops and Shared Tasks

CI+NLP: First Workshop on Causal Inference and NLP