Challenge: Existing work infers the causation between events based on knowledge from annotated causal event pairs, but additional evidence information is unexploited.
Approach: They propose an Event graph knowledge enhanced explainable CAusal Reasoning framework that acquires additional evidence information from a large-scale causal event graph as logical rules for causal reasoning.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art methods in human evaluation and in animal models.

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