Extraction of Causal Expressions using clue phrases

• Linux or Mac or Windows10(64bit)
• CaboCha
  • UTF-8
• JAVA 1.8 (oracle)
• ant (for making jar file)

$ ant
$ ant jar

A jar file(extractCausal.jar) is made in the sample folder.

You move to the sample folder. Then, run the following command.

$ java -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Xmx2G -Xmx8G -jar extractCausal.jar test_list.txt

• File list for extracting causal expressions

• -p, --pattern use Prefix Patterns
• -s, --svm use SVM results
• -t, --thredNum Thread Number

$ java -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Xmx2G -Xmx8G -jar extractCausal.jar -t 4 -s svm_result.txt -p additional_data.txt test_list.txt

CausalExtraction program outputs a following json.

[ {"clue": "で、", "basis": "円高による不況の影響", "result": "買い物客が激減。", "subj": "", "pattern": "A", "filePath": "test1.txt", "line": 2} ]

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Copyright (c) 2014 Hiroki Sakaji

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The following people found bugs of this program. Thank you very much.

• 佐藤史仁 (日興リサーチセンター株式会社) 様
• 田中良典 (日興リサーチセンター株式会社) 様