A Survey of Event Causality Identification: Taxonomy, Challenges, Assessment, and Prospects

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10371v5
• Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2025 07:53:24 GMT
• Title: A Survey of Event Causality Identification: Taxonomy, Challenges, Assessment, and Prospects
• Authors: Qing Cheng, Zefan Zeng, Xingchen Hu, Yuehang Si, Zhong Liu,
• Abstract summary: Event Causality Identification (ECI) has become an essential task in Natural Language Processing (NLP)<n>This comprehensive survey systematically investigates fundamental concepts and models, developing a systematic taxonomy and critically evaluating diverse models.
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• Abstract: 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 investigates fundamental concepts and models, developing a systematic taxonomy and critically evaluating diverse models. We begin by defining core concepts, formalizing the ECI problem, and outlining standard evaluation protocols. Our classification framework divides ECI models into two primary tasks: Sentence-level Event Causality Identification (SECI) and Document-level Event Causality Identification (DECI). For SECI, we review models employing feature pattern-based matching, machine learning classifiers, deep semantic encoding, prompt-based fine-tuning, and causal knowledge pre-training, alongside data augmentation strategies. For DECI, we focus on approaches utilizing deep semantic encoding, event graph reasoning, and prompt-based fine-tuning. Special attention is given to recent advancements in multi-lingual and cross-lingual ECI, as well as zero-shot ECI leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs). We analyze the strengths, limitations, and unresolved challenges associated with each approach. Extensive quantitative evaluations are conducted on four benchmark datasets to rigorously assess the performance of various ECI models. We conclude by discussing future research directions and highlighting opportunities to advance the field further.

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