Jiwon Jang
Author directory2026
From Text to Structure: The PACKaGE Benchmark for Bidirectional Causal Reasoning in Paragraphs and Graphs
Juhyeon Kim | Dohun Lee | Jiwon Jang | Joseph Shim | Hyunwoo Park
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Juhyeon Kim | Dohun Lee | Jiwon Jang | Joseph Shim | Hyunwoo Park
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across various domains, yet they struggle with causal reasoning tasks. We introduce PACKaGE (Paragraph-level Annotated Causal Knowledge and Graph–tExt), a causal benchmark dataset that pairs paragraph-level texts with explicit causal graphs. Unlike prior sentence-level resources, our benchmark dataset (i) operates at paragraph level to capture various and interdependent causal pathways; (ii) offers multimodal annotations including full graphs and contextualized relations; and (iii) maps extended passages to comprehensive graphs. We detail a four-stage construction pipeline: collecting causality-labeled and fact-centric texts, inducing graphs from span-tagged pairs, condensing nodes, and recomposing path-aligned narratives. Overall, the paired evaluation highlights a persistent discrepancy between linguistic competence and causal understanding in LLMs, pointing to the need for further development.