CausalNLP Tutorial: An Introduction to Causality for Natural Language Processing (2022.emnlp-tutorials)
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| Challenge: | Establishing causal relationships is a fundamental goal of scientific research . lack of clear definitions, notations, benchmark datasets, and challenges remains . |
| Approach: | They introduce the fundamentals of causal discovery and causal effect estimation to the natural language processing audience and provide an overview of causal perspectives to NLP problems. |
| Outcome: | This tutorial introduces the fundamentals of causal discovery and causal effect estimation to the natural language processing audience and provides an overview of causal perspectives to NLP problems. |
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