The Financial Document Causality Detection Shared Task (FinCausal 2021)

Mariko, Dominique and Akl, Hanna Abi and Labidurie, Estelle and Durfort, Stephane and de Mazancourt, Hugues and El-Haj, Mahmoud (2021) The Financial Document Causality Detection Shared Task (FinCausal 2021). In: 3rd Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2021), 2021-09-152021-09-16, Virtual.

Abstract

We present the FinCausal 2021 Shared Task on Causality Detection in Financial Documents and discuss the participating systems and results. A total of 6 teams submitted runs across the task and 4 of them contributed with a system description paper. This task is associated with the 3rd Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2021), held at Lancaster University, UK, on September 15-16, 2021.