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The SemEval-2024 Task 3 presents two subtasks focusing on emotion-cause pair extraction within conversational contexts. Subtask 1 revolves around the extraction of textual emotion-cause pairs, where causes are defined and annotated as…

The CCKS2019 shared task was devoted to inter-personal relationship extraction. Given two person entities and at least one sentence containing these two entities, participating teams are asked to predict the relationship between the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Haitao Wang , Zhengqiu He , Tong Zhu , Hao Shao , Wenliang Chen , Min Zhang

We address the problem of extracting structured representations of economic events from a large corpus of news articles, using a combination of natural language processing and machine learning techniques. The developed techniques allow for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Jan R. Benetka , Krisztian Balog , Kjetil Nørvåg

Community Question Answering (cQA) provides new interesting research directions to the traditional Question Answering (QA) field, e.g., the exploitation of the interaction between users and the structure of related posts. In this context,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Preslav Nakov , Lluís Màrquez , Walid Magdy , Alessandro Moschitti , James Glass , Bilal Randeree

Understanding why real-world events occur is important for both natural language processing and practical decision-making, yet direct-cause inference remains underexplored in evidence-rich settings. To address this gap, we organized…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Pengfei Cao , Mingxuan Yang , Yubo Chen , Chenlong Zhang , Mingxuan Liu , Kang Liu , Jun Zhao

Causal thinking enables humans to understand not just what is seen, but why it happens. To replicate this capability in modern AI systems, we introduce the task of visual causal discovery. It requires models to infer cause-and-effect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yize Zhang , Meiqi Chen , Sirui Chen , Bo Peng , Yanxi Zhang , Tianyu Li , Chaochao Lu

We conducted an exploratory study in virtual reality to examine if people can discover causal relations in a realistic sensorimotor context and how such learning is represented at different processing levels (conscious-cognitive vs.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Nikolai Bahr , Christoph Zetzsche , Jaime Maldonado , Kerstin Schill

We describe SemEval-2017 Task 3 on Community Question Answering. This year, we reran the four subtasks from SemEval-2016:(A) Question-Comment Similarity,(B) Question-Question Similarity,(C) Question-External Comment Similarity, and (D)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Preslav Nakov , Doris Hoogeveen , Lluís Màrquez , Alessandro Moschitti , Hamdy Mubarak , Timothy Baldwin , Karin Verspoor

Informational bias is bias conveyed through sentences or clauses that provide tangential, speculative or background information that can sway readers' opinions towards entities. By nature, informational bias is context-dependent, but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Esther van den Berg , Katja Markert

This paper presents an overview of the ImageArg shared task, the first multimodal Argument Mining shared task co-located with the 10th Workshop on Argument Mining at EMNLP 2023. The shared task comprises two classification subtasks - (1)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Zhexiong Liu , Mohamed Elaraby , Yang Zhong , Diane Litman

Understanding causal explanations - reasons given for happenings in one's life - has been found to be an important psychological factor linked to physical and mental health. Causal explanations are often studied through manual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Youngseo Son , Nipun Bayas , H. Andrew Schwartz

This paper describes the winning contribution to SemEval-2020 Task 1: Unsupervised Lexical Semantic Change Detection (Subtask 2) handed in by team UG Student Intern. We present an ensemble model that makes predictions based on context-free…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Martin Pömsl , Roman Lyapin

This paper describes our system submitted to task 4 of SemEval 2020: Commonsense Validation and Explanation (ComVE) which consists of three sub-tasks. The task is to directly validate the given sentence whether or not it makes sense and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Hongru Wang , Xiangru Tang , Sunny Lai , Kwong Sak Leung , Jia Zhu , Gabriel Pui Cheong Fung , Kam-Fai Wong

The study of causal relationships between emotions and causes in texts has recently received much attention. Most works focus on extracting causally related clauses from documents. However, none of these works has considered that the causal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Xinhong Chen , Zongxi Li , Yaowei Wang , Haoran Xie , Jianping Wang , Qing Li

We present an exhaustive classification of the 2644 causally complete spaces of input histories on 3 events with binary inputs, together with the algorithm used to find them. This paper forms the supplementary material for a trilogy of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-20 Stefano Gogioso , Nicola Pinzani

This paper describes the system submitted by our team (BabelEnconding) to SemEval-2020 Task 3: Predicting the Graded Effect of Context in Word Similarity. We propose an approach that relies on translation and multilingual language models in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Lucas R. C. Pessutto , Tiago de Melo , Viviane P. Moreira , Altigran da Silva

We describe the Clinical TempEval task which is currently in preparation for the SemEval-2015 evaluation exercise. This task involves identifying and describing events, times and the relations between them in clinical text. Six discrete…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-03-20 Steven Bethard , Leon Derczynski , James Pustejovsky , Marc Verhagen

We introduce and explore the notion of "spaces of input histories", a broad family of combinatorial objects which can be used to model input-dependent, dynamical causal order. We motivate our definition with reference to traditional partial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-31 Stefano Gogioso , Nicola Pinzani

Emotion classification is often formulated as the task to categorize texts into a predefined set of emotion classes. So far, this task has been the recognition of the emotion of writers and readers, as well as that of entities mentioned in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Enrica Troiano , Laura Oberländer , Maximilian Wegge , Roman Klinger

The multi-format information extraction task in the 2021 Language and Intelligence Challenge is designed to comprehensively evaluate information extraction from different dimensions. It consists of an multiple slots relation extraction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Yaduo Liu , Longhui Zhang , Shujuan Yin , Xiaofeng Zhao , Feiliang Ren