Abstract
Understanding temporal and causal relations between events is a fundamental natural language understanding task. Because a cause must occur earlier than its effect, temporal and causal relations are closely related and one relation often dictates the value of the other. However, limited attention has been paid to studying these two relations jointly. This paper presents a joint inference framework for them using constrained conditional models (CCMs). Specifically, we formulate the joint problem as an integer linear programming (ILP) problem, enforcing constraints that are inherent in the nature of time and causality. We show that the joint inference framework results in statistically significant improvement in the extraction of both temporal and causal relations from text.- Anthology ID:
- P18-1212
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2018
- Address:
- Melbourne, Australia
- Venue:
- ACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 2278–2288
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/P18-1212
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/P18-1212
- Cite (ACL):
- Qiang Ning, Zhili Feng, Hao Wu, and Dan Roth. 2018. Joint Reasoning for Temporal and Causal Relations. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 2278–2288, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Joint Reasoning for Temporal and Causal Relations (Ning et al., ACL 2018)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/remove-xml-comments/P18-1212.pdf
- Data
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