HeadlineCause: A Dataset of News Headlines for Detecting Causalities (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing datasets focus on commonsense causal reasoning or explicit causal relations . authors present dataset for detecting implicit causal relations between news headlines . |
| Approach: | They present a dataset for detecting implicit causal relations between news headlines . they use 5000 headline pairs from English news and 9000 from Russian news . |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset shows that it is valid and can be used to predict implicit causal relations between headline pairs. |
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