BoschAI @ Causal News Corpus 2023: Robust Cause-Effect Span Extraction using Multi-Layer Sequence Tagging and Data Augmentation

Timo Pierre Schrader, Simon Razniewski, Lukas Lange, Annemarie Friedrich


Abstract
Understanding causality is a core aspect of intelligence. The Event Causality Identification with Causal News Corpus Shared Task addresses two aspects of this challenge: Subtask 1 aims at detecting causal relationships in texts, and Subtask 2 requires identifying signal words and the spans that refer to the cause or effect, respectively. Our system, which is based on pre-trained transformers, stacked sequence tagging, and synthetic data augmentation, ranks third in Subtask 1 and wins Subtask 2 with an F1 score of 72.8, corresponding to a margin of 13 pp. to the second-best system.
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2023.case-1.5
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Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text
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sEPTEMBER
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2023
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Varna, Bulgaria
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Ali Hürriyetoğlu, Hristo Tanev, Vanni Zavarella, Reyyan Yeniterzi, Erdem Yörük, Milena Slavcheva
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CASE | WS
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INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria
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38–43
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Timo Pierre Schrader, Simon Razniewski, Lukas Lange, and Annemarie Friedrich. 2023. BoschAI @ Causal News Corpus 2023: Robust Cause-Effect Span Extraction using Multi-Layer Sequence Tagging and Data Augmentation. In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text, pages 38–43, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria.
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BoschAI @ Causal News Corpus 2023: Robust Cause-Effect Span Extraction using Multi-Layer Sequence Tagging and Data Augmentation (Schrader et al., CASE-WS 2023)
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