Event Causality Extraction with Event Argument Correlations
Shiyao Cui, Jiawei Sheng, Xin Cong, Quangang Li, Tingwen Liu, Jinqiao Shi
Abstract
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 and cause-effect causality component information, making it struggle for downstream applications. In this paper, we introduce a novel task, namely Event Causality Extraction (ECE), aiming to extract the cause-effect event causality pairs with their structured event information from plain texts. The ECE task is more challenging since each event can contain multiple event arguments, posing fine-grained correlations between events to decide the cause-effect event pair. Hence, we propose a method with a dual grid tagging scheme to capture the intra- and inter-event argument correlations for ECE. Further, we devise a event type-enhanced model architecture to realize the dual grid tagging scheme. Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our method, and extensive analyses point out several future directions for ECE.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.coling-1.201
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
- Month:
- October
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Chu-Ren Huang, Hansaem Kim, James Pustejovsky, Leo Wanner, Key-Sun Choi, Pum-Mo Ryu, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Lucia Donatelli, Heng Ji, Sadao Kurohashi, Patrizia Paggio, Nianwen Xue, Seokhwan Kim, Younggyun Hahm, Zhong He, Tony Kyungil Lee, Enrico Santus, Francis Bond, Seung-Hoon Na
- Venue:
- COLING
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- International Committee on Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 2300–2312
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.201
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Shiyao Cui, Jiawei Sheng, Xin Cong, Quangang Li, Tingwen Liu, and Jinqiao Shi. 2022. Event Causality Extraction with Event Argument Correlations. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 2300–2312, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Event Causality Extraction with Event Argument Correlations (Cui et al., COLING 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-5/2022.coling-1.201.pdf
- Code
- cuishiyao96/ece