Document-level Causal Relation Extraction with Knowledge-guided Binary Question Answering (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing research on Event-Event Causal Relation Extraction (ECRE) has highlighted the lack of document-level modeling and causal hallucinations. |
| Approach: | They propose a Knowledge-guided binary Question Answering method with event structures for ECRE that utilizes cross-task knowledge in IE. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves state-of-the-art on the MECI and MAVEN-ERE datasets. |
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