@inproceedings{hu-etal-2017-inference,
    title = "Inference of Fine-Grained Event Causality from Blogs and Films",
    author = "Hu, Zhichao  and
      Rahimtoroghi, Elahe  and
      Walker, Marilyn",
    editor = "Caselli, Tommaso  and
      Miller, Ben  and
      van Erp, Marieke  and
      Vossen, Piek  and
      Palmer, Martha  and
      Hovy, Eduard  and
      Mitamura, Teruko  and
      Caswell, David",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Events and Stories in the News Workshop",
    month = aug,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Vancouver, Canada",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/iwcs-25-ingestion/W17-2708/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-2708",
    pages = "52--58",
    abstract = "Human understanding of narrative is mainly driven by reasoning about causal relations between events and thus recognizing them is a key capability for computational models of language understanding. Computational work in this area has approached this via two different routes: by focusing on acquiring a knowledge base of common causal relations between events, or by attempting to understand a particular story or macro-event, along with its storyline. In this position paper, we focus on knowledge acquisition approach and claim that newswire is a relatively poor source for learning fine-grained causal relations between everyday events. We describe experiments using an unsupervised method to learn causal relations between events in the narrative genres of first-person narratives and film scene descriptions. We show that our method learns fine-grained causal relations, judged by humans as likely to be causal over 80{\%} of the time. We also demonstrate that the learned event pairs do not exist in publicly available event-pair datasets extracted from newswire."
}