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Event Causality Identification with Synthetic Control
Haoyu Wang, Fengze Liu, Jiayao Zhang +2
Event causality identification (ECI), a process that extracts causal relations between events from text, is crucial for distinguishing causation from correlation. Traditional appro…
Estimating the Causal Effect of Early ArXiving on Paper Acceptance
Yanai Elazar, Jiayao Zhang, David Wadden +2
What is the effect of releasing a preprint of a paper before it is submitted for peer review? No randomized controlled trial has been conducted, so we turn to observational data to…
COLA: Contextualized Commonsense Causal Reasoning from the Causal Inference Perspective
Zhaowei Wang, Quyet V. Do, Hongming Zhang +6
Detecting commonsense causal relations (causation) between events has long been an essential yet challenging task. Given that events are complicated, an event may have different ca…
Some Reflections on Drawing Causal Inference using Textual Data: Parallels Between Human Subjects and Organized Texts
Bo Zhang, Jiayao Zhang
We examine the role of textual data as study units when conducting causal inference by drawing parallels between human subjects and organized texts. %in human population research.…
ROCK: Causal Inference Principles for Reasoning about Commonsense Causality
Jiayao Zhang, Hongming Zhang, Weijie J. Su +1
Commonsense causality reasoning (CCR) aims at identifying plausible causes and effects in natural language descriptions that are deemed reasonable by an average person. Although be…