SemEval-2020 Task 5: Counterfactual Recognition

Understand

We present a counterfactual recognition (CR) task, the shared Task 5 of SemEval-2020.

• Counterfactuals describe potential outcomes (consequents) produced by actions or circumstances that did not happen or cannot happen and are counter to the facts (antecedent).
• Counterfactual thinking is an important characteristic of the human cognitive system; it connects antecedents and consequents with causal relations.
• Our task provides a benchmark for counterfactual recognition in natural language with two subtasks.