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Event Causality Identification (ECI) aims to detect whether there exists a causal relation between two events in a document. Existing studies adopt a kind of identifying after learning paradigm, where events' representations are first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Cheng Liu , Wei Xiang , Bang Wang

Event Causality Identification (ECI) has become an essential task in Natural Language Processing (NLP), focused on automatically detecting causal relationships between events within texts. This comprehensive survey systematically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Qing Cheng , Zefan Zeng , Xingchen Hu , Yuehang Si , Zhong Liu

Event Causality Identification (ECI) aims at determining the existence of a causal relation between two events. Although recent prompt learning-based approaches have shown promising improvements on the ECI task, their performance are often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Chao Liang , Wei Xiang , Bang Wang

Document-level Event Causality Identification (DECI) aims to identify causal relations between two events in documents. Recent research tends to use pre-trained language models to generate the event causal relations. Whereas, these methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Baiyan Zhang , Qin Chen , Jie Zhou , Jian Jin , Liang He

Event Causality Identification (ECI) focuses on extracting causal relations between events in texts. Existing methods for ECI primarily rely on causal features and external knowledge. However, these approaches fall short in two dimensions:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Haoran Li , Qiang Gao , Hongmei Wu , Li Huang

Event Causality Identification (ECI), which aims to detect whether a causality relation exists between two given textual events, is an important task for event causality understanding. However, the ECI task ignores crucial event structure…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Shiyao Cui , Jiawei Sheng , Xin Cong , QuanGang Li , Tingwen Liu , Jinqiao Shi

Event causality identification (ECI), a process that extracts causal relations between events from text, is crucial for distinguishing causation from correlation. Traditional approaches to ECI have primarily utilized linguistic patterns and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Haoyu Wang , Fengze Liu , Jiayao Zhang , Dan Roth , Kyle Richardson

Current models for event causality identification (ECI) mainly adopt a supervised framework, which heavily rely on labeled data for training. Unfortunately, the scale of current annotated datasets is relatively limited, which cannot provide…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Xinyu Zuo , Pengfei Cao , Yubo Chen , Kang Liu , Jun Zhao , Weihua Peng , Yuguang Chen

Modern models for event causality identification (ECI) are mainly based on supervised learning, which are prone to the data lacking problem. Unfortunately, the existing NLP-related augmentation methods cannot directly produce the available…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Xinyu Zuo , Pengfei Cao , Yubo Chen , Kang Liu , Jun Zhao , Weihua Peng , Yuguang Chen

Implicit event argument extraction (EAE) aims to identify arguments that could scatter over the document. Most previous work focuses on learning the direct relations between arguments and the given trigger, while the implicit relations with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Jiaju Lin , Qin Chen , Jie Zhou , Jian Jin , Liang He

Eliciting knowledge from pre-trained language models via prompt-based learning has shown great potential in many natural language processing tasks. Whereas, the applications for more complex tasks such as event extraction are less studied…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Jiaju Lin , Qin Chen

Event Causality Identification (ECI) aims to identify causal relations between events in unstructured texts. This is a very challenging task, because causal relations are usually expressed by implicit associations between events. Existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Zhilei Hu , Zixuan Li , Xiaolong Jin , Long Bai , Saiping Guan , Jiafeng Guo , Xueqi Cheng

Prompt-based methods have become increasingly popular among information extraction tasks, especially in low-data scenarios. By formatting a finetune task into a pre-training objective, prompt-based methods resolve the data scarce problem…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Jiaju Lin , Jie Zhou , Qin Chen

Automated commonsense reasoning is essential for building human-like AI systems featuring, for example, explainable AI. Event Calculus (EC) is a family of formalisms that model commonsense reasoning with a sound, logical basis. Previous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Joaquín Arias , Manuel Carro , Zhuo Chen , Gopal Gupta

Causal inference is essential for data-driven decision making across domains such as business engagement, medical treatment and policy making. However, research on causal discovery has evolved separately from inference methods, preventing…

Document-level Event Causality Identification (DECI) aims to identify causal relations between event pairs in a document. It poses a great challenge of across-sentence reasoning without clear causal indicators. In this paper, we propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Meiqi Chen , Yixin Cao , Kunquan Deng , Mukai Li , Kun Wang , Jing Shao , Yan Zhang

Prompt learning has garnered attention for its efficiency over traditional model training and fine-tuning. However, existing methods, constrained by inadequate theoretical foundations, encounter difficulties in achieving causally invariant…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Xinshu Li , Ruoyu Wang , Erdun Gao , Mingming Gong , Lina Yao

Recent advancements in event argument extraction (EAE) involve incorporating useful auxiliary information into models during training and inference, such as retrieved instances and event templates. These methods face two challenges: (1) the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Guanghui Wang , Dexi Liu , Jian-Yun Nie , Qizhi Wan , Rong Hu , Xiping Liu , Wanlong Liu , Jiaming Liu

For a given causal question, it is important to efficiently decide which causal inference method to use for a given dataset. This is challenging because causal methods typically rely on complex and difficult-to-verify assumptions, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Shantanu Gupta , Cheng Zhang , Agrin Hilmkil

Lifelong event detection aims to incrementally update a model with new event types and data while retaining the capability on previously learned old types. One critical challenge is that the model would catastrophically forget old types…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Minqian Liu , Shiyu Chang , Lifu Huang
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