The Event StoryLine Corpus: A New Benchmark for Causal and Temporal Relation Extraction

This paper reports on the Event StoryLine Corpus (ESC) v0.9, a new benchmark dataset for the temporal and causal relation detection. By developing this dataset, we also introduce a new task, the StoryLine Extraction from news data, which aims at extracting and classifying events relevant for stories, from across news documents spread in time and clustered around a single seminal event or topic. In addition to describing the dataset, we also report on three baselines systems whose results show the complexity of the task and suggest directions for the development of more robust systems.