The Financial Document Causality Detection Shared Task (FinCausal 2025)

Antonio Moreno-Sandoval, Jordi Porta, Blanca Carbajo-Coronado, Yanco Torterolo, Doaa Samy


Abstract
We present the Financial Document Causality Detection Task (FinCausal 2025), a multilingual challenge to identify causal relationships within financial texts. This task comprises English and Spanish subtasks, with datasets compiled from British and Spanish annual reports. Participants were tasked with identifying and generating answers to questions about causes or effects within specific text segments. The dataset combines extractive and generative question-answering (QA) methods, with abstractly formulated questions and directly extracted answers from the text. Systems performance is evaluated using exact matching and semantic similarity metrics. The challenge attracted submissions from 10 teams for the English subtask and 10 teams for the Spanish subtask. FinCausal 2025 is part of the 6th Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2025), hosted at COLING 2025 in Abu Dhabi.
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2025.finnlp-1.21
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Proceedings of the Joint Workshop of the 9th Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing (FinNLP), the 6th Financial Narrative Processing (FNP), and the 1st Workshop on Large Language Models for Finance and Legal (LLMFinLegal)
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January
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2025
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Abu Dhabi, UAE
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Chung-Chi Chen, Antonio Moreno-Sandoval, Jimin Huang, Qianqian Xie, Sophia Ananiadou, Hsin-Hsi Chen
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FinNLP | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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214–221
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Antonio Moreno-Sandoval, Jordi Porta, Blanca Carbajo-Coronado, Yanco Torterolo, and Doaa Samy. 2025. The Financial Document Causality Detection Shared Task (FinCausal 2025). In Proceedings of the Joint Workshop of the 9th Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing (FinNLP), the 6th Financial Narrative Processing (FNP), and the 1st Workshop on Large Language Models for Finance and Legal (LLMFinLegal), pages 214–221, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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