Challenge: Existing methods to identify event-event causal relations in a document are noisy and require heuristic rules or external tools.
Approach: They propose a document-level event-event causality identification framework that uses heuristic rules to design edges between events.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods on two benchmark datasets.

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Challenge: a study aims to identify all the event causal relations in a document, both within a sentence and across sentences . main challenges for achieving comprehensive causal relation identification are sparse among all possible event pairs . few causal relations are explicitly stated, especially for identifying cross-sentence causal relations .
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Challenge: Existing methods for Event Causality Identification (ECI) rely on external toolkits or human annotation to obtain training signals.
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Knowledge-Enriched Event Causality Identification via Latent Structure Induction Networks (2021.acl-long)

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