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title = "{C}ausal{S}ense: Leveraging Common Sense Knowledge and {LLM}s for Joint Event Extraction and Relation Classification",
author = "REBBOUD, Youssra and
Lisena, Pasquale and
Troncy, Raphael",
editor = "Piperidis, Stelios and
Bel, N{\'u}ria and
van den Heuvel, Henk and
Ide, Nancy and
Krek, Simon and
Toral, Antonio",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
month = may,
year = "2026",
address = "Palma de Mallorca, Spain",
publisher = "ELRA Language Resource Association",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.604/",
doi = "10.63317/4uiusu5nfowx",
pages = "7619--7630",
abstract = "Event Relation Extraction (ERE) aims to identify and classify semantic relationships between events expressed in text. While existing work has mainly addressed temporal or simple causal links, fine-grained causal relations such as enable, prevent, and intend remain insufficiently explored, partly due to limited and imbalanced labeled datasets. We present a novel framework that leverages large language models (LLMs) and common-sense knowledge to jointly perform event extraction and relation classification. Our contribution includes (1) the creation of the CausalSense large-scale dataset containing more than 500k sentences from news data and commonsense knowledge extracted from ATOMIC, and enriched synthetically; and (2) the evaluation of multiple architectures, including transformer-based models and end-to-end multitask systems for extracting fine-grained causal relationships. Experimental results show that our best-performing model achieves a 32.3{\%} improvement in average F1-score over the current state of the art. The integration of commonsense knowledge substantially enhances fine-grained causal relation detection. The CausalSense dataset, our code and models are released as open source to support future research on causal event relationship extraction."
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%A REBBOUD, Youssra
%A Lisena, Pasquale
%A Troncy, Raphael
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
%Y Bel, Núria
%Y van den Heuvel, Henk
%Y Ide, Nancy
%Y Krek, Simon
%Y Toral, Antonio
%S Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
%D 2026
%8 May
%I ELRA Language Resource Association
%C Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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%X Event Relation Extraction (ERE) aims to identify and classify semantic relationships between events expressed in text. While existing work has mainly addressed temporal or simple causal links, fine-grained causal relations such as enable, prevent, and intend remain insufficiently explored, partly due to limited and imbalanced labeled datasets. We present a novel framework that leverages large language models (LLMs) and common-sense knowledge to jointly perform event extraction and relation classification. Our contribution includes (1) the creation of the CausalSense large-scale dataset containing more than 500k sentences from news data and commonsense knowledge extracted from ATOMIC, and enriched synthetically; and (2) the evaluation of multiple architectures, including transformer-based models and end-to-end multitask systems for extracting fine-grained causal relationships. Experimental results show that our best-performing model achieves a 32.3% improvement in average F1-score over the current state of the art. The integration of commonsense knowledge substantially enhances fine-grained causal relation detection. The CausalSense dataset, our code and models are released as open source to support future research on causal event relationship extraction.
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%P 7619-7630
Markdown (Informal)
[CausalSense: Leveraging Common Sense Knowledge and LLMs for Joint Event Extraction and Relation Classification](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.604/) (REBBOUD et al., LREC 2026)
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