MLModeler5 @ Causal News Corpus 2023: Using RoBERTa for Casual Event Classification

Amrita Bhatia, Ananya Thomas, Nitansh Jain, Jatin Bedi

Abstract
Identifying cause-effect relations plays an integral role in the understanding and interpretation of natural languages. Furthermore, automated mining of causal relations from news and text about socio-political events is a stepping stone in gaining critical insights, including analyzing the scale, frequency and trends across timelines of events, as well as anticipating future ones. The Shared Task 3, part of the 6th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE @ RANLP 2023), involved the task of Event Causality Identification with Causal News Corpus. We describe our approach to Subtask 1, dealing with causal event classification, a supervised binary classification problem to annotate given event sentences with whether they contained any cause-effect relations. To help achieve this task, a BERT based architecture - RoBERTa was implemented. The results of this model are validated on the dataset provided by the organizers of this task.
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2023.case-1.4
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Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text
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sEPTEMBER
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2023
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Varna, Bulgaria
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Ali Hürriyetoğlu, Hristo Tanev, Vanni Zavarella, Reyyan Yeniterzi, Erdem Yörük, Milena Slavcheva
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CASE | WS
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INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria
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34–37
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Amrita Bhatia, Ananya Thomas, Nitansh Jain, and Jatin Bedi. 2023. MLModeler5 @ Causal News Corpus 2023: Using RoBERTa for Casual Event Classification. In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text, pages 34–37, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria.
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