GGNN@Causal News Corpus 2022: Gated Graph Neural Networks for Event Causality Identification from Social-Political News Articles

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Abstract

The discovery of causality mentions from text is a core cognitive concept and appears in many natural language processing (NLP) applications. In this paper, we study the task of Event Causality Identification (ECI) from social-political news. The aim of the task is to detect causal relationships between event mention pairs in text. Although deep learning models have recently achieved a state-of-the-art performance on many tasks and applications in NLP, most of them still fail to capture rich semantic and syntactic structures within sentences which is key for causality classification. We present a solution for causal event detection from social-political news that captures semantic and syntactic information based on gated graph neural networks (GGNN) and contextualized language embeddings. Experimental results show that our proposed method outperforms the baseline model (BERT (Bidirectional Embeddings from Transformers) in terms of f1-score and accuracy.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCASE 2022 - 5th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-Political Events from Text, Proceedings of the Workshop
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages85-90
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781959429050
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event5th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-Political Events from Text, CASE 2022 - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 7 Dec 20228 Dec 2022

Publication series

NameCASE 2022 - 5th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-Political Events from Text, Proceedings of the Workshop

Conference

Conference5th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-Political Events from Text, CASE 2022
Country/TerritoryUnited Arab Emirates
CityAbu Dhabi
Period7/12/228/12/22

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