CATENA: CAusal and TEmporal relation extraction from NAtural language texts

Paramita Mirza, Sara Tonelli


Abstract
We present CATENA, a sieve-based system to perform temporal and causal relation extraction and classification from English texts, exploiting the interaction between the temporal and the causal model. We evaluate the performance of each sieve, showing that the rule-based, the machine-learned and the reasoning components all contribute to achieving state-of-the-art performance on TempEval-3 and TimeBank-Dense data. Although causal relations are much sparser than temporal ones, the architecture and the selected features are mostly suitable to serve both tasks. The effects of the interaction between the temporal and the causal components, although limited, yield promising results and confirm the tight connection between the temporal and the causal dimension of texts.
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C16-1007
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Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers
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December
Year:
2016
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Osaka, Japan
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Yuji Matsumoto, Rashmi Prasad
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COLING
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The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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64–75
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https://aclanthology.org/C16-1007
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Paramita Mirza and Sara Tonelli. 2016. CATENA: CAusal and TEmporal relation extraction from NAtural language texts. In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers, pages 64–75, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
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CATENA: CAusal and TEmporal relation extraction from NAtural language texts (Mirza & Tonelli, COLING 2016)
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Code
 paramitamirza/CATENA
Data
TimeBank