#!/usr/bin/env python3 """ Run this script as ./conversion_script.py to convert the Causal News Corpus (CNC) "V1" (2022) DIRECTLY from its original repository -- ``UniCausal2HF`` already reads a CSV given any path/URL pandas' own ``read_csv`` accepts, so no manual download/caching step is needed; point it straight at the raw GitHub URLs. Previously this dataset had 0 parquet files on disk (the old script expected a manually-placed ``cnc_train.csv`` that was never provided) -- this had never once been run. Citation / original source --------------------------- Tan, F. A., Ng, S.-K., & Ong, A. R. (2022). "The Causal News Corpus: Annotating Causal Relations in Event Sentences from News." LREC 2022. https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.246/ Repo (verified live, public, no login): github.com/tanfiona/CausalNewsCorpus License: CC0-1.0 (verified via GitHub API) -- public domain, no restrictions. This is the original 2022 release -- see ../CNCv2/conversion_script.py for "V2" (published as RECESS), the actively-maintained version the maintainers themselves now recommend ("For 2023 Shared Task, please use V2" -- repo README): V1's span annotations (subtask 2, Cause/Effect/Signal) are much sparser, only 183 causal relations total vs. V2's 2257 (verified: `train_subtask2_grouped.csv` + `dev_subtask2_grouped.csv` row counts). Kept as its own separate dataset rather than silently overwritten, so both remain available for comparison. Format: the ``_grouped`` CSVs already match causalatee's ``UniCausal2HF`` grouped format exactly (one row per sentence; ``causal_text_w_pairs`` is a Python-repr'd list of 0+ independently //-tagged copies of that row's ``text``, one per causal relation -- ARG0=cause, ARG1=effect, confirmed against real "because"/"due to" examples) -- see causalatee/data/conversion/_unicausal2hf.py for the shared parsing logic (also used by BECauSEv2, AltLex). No usable test split: the real held-out test set (``test_subtask2_text.csv``) has NO gold labels at all and never will -- confirmed directly from data/V1's upstream README: labels are withheld for a recurring shared task. Mapped here as: upstream train -> causalatee train, upstream dev -> causalatee dev.parquet -- written as ``dev.parquet``, NOT ``test.parquet`` (fixed 2026-07-20; previously written as test.parquet, which claimed a real held-out test set exists when it's actually the upstream dev split). `with_validation_split` in the evaluation harness treats a dataset with dev but no test as: promote this dev to serve as the final eval target, and carve a FRESH validation split out of train for early stopping instead, so the promoted dev is never touched during training either way -- see its docstring. """ from pathlib import Path from causalatee.data.constants import Task from causalatee.data.conversion import UniCausal2HF _BASE_URL = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tanfiona/CausalNewsCorpus/master/data/V1" converter = UniCausal2HF( { "train": f"{_BASE_URL}/train_subtask2_grouped.csv", "dev": f"{_BASE_URL}/dev_subtask2_grouped.csv", }, Path.cwd(), ) for split in ["train", "dev"]: converter.convert(Task.CausalityDetection, split) converter.convert(Task.CausalCandidateExtraction, split) converter.convert(Task.CausalityIdentification, split)