Automatic Extraction of Causal Relations from Text using Linguistically Informed Deep Neural Networks

Tirthankar Dasgupta, Rupsa Saha, Lipika Dey, Abir Naskar

Abstract
In this paper we have proposed a linguistically informed recursive neural network architecture for automatic extraction of cause-effect relations from text. These relations can be expressed in arbitrarily complex ways. The architecture uses word level embeddings and other linguistic features to detect causal events and their effects mentioned within a sentence. The extracted events and their relations are used to build a causal-graph after clustering and appropriate generalization, which is then used for predictive purposes. We have evaluated the performance of the proposed extraction model with respect to two baseline systems,one a rule-based classifier, and the other a conditional random field (CRF) based supervised model. We have also compared our results with related work reported in the past by other authors on SEMEVAL data set, and found that the proposed bi-directional LSTM model enhanced with an additional linguistic layer performs better. We have also worked extensively on creating new annotated datasets from publicly available data, which we are willing to share with the community.
Anthology ID:
W18-5035
Volume:
Proceedings of the 19th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue
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July
Year:
2018
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Melbourne, Australia
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Kazunori Komatani, Diane Litman, Kai Yu, Alex Papangelis, Lawrence Cavedon, Mikio Nakano
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SIGDIAL
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SIGDIAL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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306–316
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https://aclanthology.org/W18-5035
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W18-5035
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Tirthankar Dasgupta, Rupsa Saha, Lipika Dey, and Abir Naskar. 2018. Automatic Extraction of Causal Relations from Text using Linguistically Informed Deep Neural Networks. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 306–316, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Automatic Extraction of Causal Relations from Text using Linguistically Informed Deep Neural Networks (Dasgupta et al., SIGDIAL 2018)
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