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The present study explores the intricacies of causal relationship extraction, a vital component in the pursuit of causality knowledge. Causality is frequently intertwined with temporal elements, as the progression from cause to effect is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Xiaosong Yuan , Ke Chen , Wanli Zuo , Yijia Zhang

Event extraction (EE) is an essential task of information extraction, which aims to extract structured event information from unstructured text. Most prior work focuses on extracting flat events while neglecting overlapped or nested ones. A…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Hu Cao , Jingye Li , Fangfang Su , Fei Li , Hao Fei , Shengqiong Wu , Bobo Li , Liang Zhao , Donghong Ji

Events describe the state changes of entities. In a document, multiple events are connected by various relations (e.g., Coreference, Temporal, Causal, and Subevent). Therefore, obtaining the connections between events through Event-Event…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Haochen Li , Di Geng

In fact-checking applications, a common reason to reject a claim is to detect the presence of erroneous cause-effect relationships between the events at play. However, current automated fact-checking methods lack dedicated causal-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Youssra Rebboud , Pasquale Lisena , Raphael Troncy

Knowledge graph technology is considered a powerful and semantically enabled solution to link entities, allowing users to derive new knowledge by reasoning data according to various types of reasoning rules. However, in building such a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Yuanyuan Tian , Wenwen Li

Event Extraction plays an important role in information-extraction to understand the world. Event extraction could be split into two subtasks: one is event trigger extraction, the other is event arguments extraction. However, the F-Score of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Zhigang Kan , Linbo Qiao , Sen Yang , Feng Liu , Feng Huang

Event co-occurrences have been proved effective for event extraction (EE) in previous studies, but have not been considered for event argument extraction (EAE) recently. In this paper, we try to fill this gap between EE research and EAE…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Yuxin He , Jingyue Hu , Buzhou Tang

Causality is crucial to understanding the mechanisms behind complex systems and making decisions that lead to intended outcomes. Event sequence data is widely collected from many real-world processes, such as electronic health records, web…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Zhuochen Jin , Shunan Guo , Nan Chen , Daniel Weiskopf , David Gotz , Nan Cao

Cross-document Event Coreference Resolution (CD-ECR) is a fundamental task in natural language processing (NLP) that seeks to determine whether event mentions across multiple documents refer to the same real-world occurrence. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Long Yao , Wenzhong Yang , Yabo Yin , Fuyuan Wei , Hongzhen Lv , Jiaren Peng , Liejun Wang , Xiaoming Tao

Joint-event-extraction, which extracts structural information (i.e., entities or triggers of events) from unstructured real-world corpora, has attracted more and more research attention in natural language processing. Most existing works do…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Yue Wang , Zhuo Xu , Lu Bai , Yao Wan , Lixin Cui , Qian Zhao , Edwin R. Hancock , Philip S. Yu

Event Causality Identification (ECI) aims to detect causal relationships between events in textual contexts. Existing ECI models predominantly rely on supervised methodologies, suffering from dependence on large-scale annotated data.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Zefan Zeng , Xingchen Hu , Qing Cheng , Weiping Ding , Wentao Li , Zhong Liu

Nowadays, Twitter has become a great source of user-generated information about events. Very often people report causal relationships between events in their tweets. Automatic detection of causality information in these events might play an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Humayun Kayesh , Md. Saiful Islam , Junhu Wang

Multiple metrics have been developed to detect causality relations between data describing the elements constituting complex systems, all of them considering their evolution through time. Here we propose a metric able to detect causality…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-05-20 Massimiliano Zanin

Argument structure extraction (ASE) aims to identify the discourse structure of arguments within documents. Previous research has demonstrated that contextual information is crucial for developing an effective ASE model. However, we observe…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yun Luo , Zhen Yang , Fandong Meng , Yingjie Li , Jie Zhou , Yue Zhang

Nested Event Extraction (NEE) aims to extract complex event structures where an event contains other events as its arguments recursively. Nested events involve a kind of Pivot Elements (PEs) that simultaneously act as arguments of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Weicheng Ren , Zixuan Li , Xiaolong Jin , Long Bai , Miao Su , Yantao Liu , Saiping Guan , Jiafeng Guo , Xueqi Cheng

We propose a graph-based event extraction framework JSEEGraph that approaches the task of event extraction as general graph parsing in the tradition of Meaning Representation Parsing. It explicitly encodes entities and events in a single…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Huiling You , Samia Touileb , Lilja Øvrelid

Extracting causal relationships from a medical case report is essential for comprehending the case, particularly its diagnostic process. Since the diagnostic process is regarded as a bottom-up inference, causal relationships in cases…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Sakiko Yahata , Zhen Wan , Fei Cheng , Sadao Kurohashi , Hisahiko Sato , Ryozo Nagai

The work presented in this master thesis consists of extracting a set of events from texts written in natural language. For this purpose, we have based ourselves on the basic notions of the information extraction as well as the open…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Sihem Sahnoun

Explaining underlying causes or effects about events is a challenging but valuable task. We define a novel problem of generating explanations of a time series event by (1) searching cause and effect relationships of the time series with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Dongyeop Kang , Varun Gangal , Ang Lu , Zheng Chen , Eduard Hovy

Causality represents the foremost relation between events in financial documents such as financial news articles, financial reports. Each financial causality contains a cause span and an effect span. Previous works proposed sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Tapas Nayak , Soumya Sharma , Yash Butala , Koustuv Dasgupta , Pawan Goyal , Niloy Ganguly