Advancing Event Causality Identification via Heuristic Semantic Dependency Inquiry Network

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13621v2
• Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 06:14:17 GMT
• Title: Advancing Event Causality Identification via Heuristic Semantic Dependency Inquiry Network
• Authors: Haoran Li, Qiang Gao, Hongmei Wu, Li Huang,
• Abstract summary: Event Causality Identification (ECI) focuses on extracting causal relations between events in texts. We propose SemDI - a simple and effective Semantic Dependency Inquiry Network for ECI.
• Score: 11.726799701525131
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: 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: (1) causal features between events in a text often lack explicit clues, and (2) external knowledge may introduce bias, while specific problems require tailored analyses. To address these issues, we propose SemDI - a simple and effective Semantic Dependency Inquiry Network for ECI. SemDI captures semantic dependencies within the context using a unified encoder. Then, it utilizes a Cloze Analyzer to generate a fill-in token based on comprehensive context understanding. Finally, this fill-in token is used to inquire about the causal relation between two events. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of SemDI, surpassing state-of-the-art methods on three widely used benchmarks. Code is available at https://github.com/hrlics/SemDI.

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