TY - GEN
T1 - Minimally supervised event causality identification
AU - Do, Quang Xuan
AU - Chan, Yee Seng
AU - Roth, Dan
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This paper develops a minimally supervised approach, based on focused distributional similarity methods and discourse connectives, for identifying of causality relations between events in context. While it has been shown that distributional similarity can help identifying causality, we observe that discourse connectives and the particular discourse relation they evoke in context provide additional information towards determining causality between events. We show that combining discourse relation predictions and distributional similarity methods in a global inference procedure provides additional improvements towards determining event causality.
AB - This paper develops a minimally supervised approach, based on focused distributional similarity methods and discourse connectives, for identifying of causality relations between events in context. While it has been shown that distributional similarity can help identifying causality, we observe that discourse connectives and the particular discourse relation they evoke in context provide additional information towards determining causality between events. We show that combining discourse relation predictions and distributional similarity methods in a global inference procedure provides additional improvements towards determining event causality.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80053242014
SN - 1937284115
SN - 9781937284114
T3 - EMNLP 2011 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference
SP - 294
EP - 303
BT - EMNLP 2011 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference
T2 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2011
Y2 - 27 July 2011 through 31 July 2011
ER -