Call for participation:

FinCausal-2021 Shared Task: “Financial Document Causality Detection”
To be held at The 3rd Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2021)
Lancaster, United Kingdom [online] on 15 and 16 September 2021. A free 2 day event.
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Shared Task URL: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cfie/fincausal2021/
Workshop URL: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cfie/fnp2021/
Participation Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeQwqy9xJz1R9Y2VzNok5d9rcHoU0AG3NDHnTTEnPJqJj4tgw/viewform?usp=sf_link
Previous edition: https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/25340
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Awards and Prizes:

The winning team for FinCausal 2021 shared task will receive an achievement certificate and a money prize worth US$650. The team will also be given the chance to present their work at the workshop.

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Shared Task Description:

Tha Causality Detection task focuses on detecting if an object, an event or a chain of events is considered a cause for a prior event. This shared task's target is to determine whether a causality is associated with a quantified fact. An event is defined as the arising or emergence of a new object or context in regard to a previous situation. So the task will emphasize the detection of causality associated with transformation of financial objects embedded in quantified facts.


Participants should fill the registration short form to register to FinCausal.
Registration will result in subscription to the task's mailing list.
Participants submitting results commit themselves to writing a short system paper to be published in ACL proceedings.


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Important dates:
• 1st Call for participation: 27 April 2021
• 2nd Call for participation: 15 May 2021
• Training set release: 1st of June 2021
• Blind test set release: 1st of July 2021.
• Systems submission 1st of August 2021.
• Release of results: 1st of September 2021.
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Contact:
For any questions on the shared task please contact us on:
fin.causal.task@gmail.com
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Shared Task Organisers:
- Dominique Mariko – Yseop Lab
- Hanna Abi Akl – Yseop Lab
- Hugues de Mazancourt – Yseop Lab
- Estelle Labidurie – Yseop Lab
- Mahmoud El-Haj, General Chair (Lancaster University)