Causal markers across domains and genres of discourse

This paper is a study of causation as it occurs in different domains and genres of discourse. There have been various initiatives to extract causality from discourse using causal markers. However, to our knowledge, none of these approaches have displayed similar results when applied to other styles of discourse. In this study we evaluate the nature of causal markers - specifically causatives, between corpora in different domains and genres of discourse and measure the overlap of causal markers using two metrics - Term Similarity and Causal Precision. We find that causal markers, specially causatives (causal verbs) are extremely domain dependent, and moderately genre dependent.

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