Causal relationship recognition algorithm based on external semantic and contextual structural features

Abstract

Identifying the causal relationship of events plays an important role in determining the development of known events and evaluating the possible outcomes of different decisions. At present, neural network models are widely used to identify the relationships between events. Based on obtaining events, researchers distinguish the relationships between events by mining their semantics. However, due to the complexity of events and the dynamic changes in relationships between events, models often cannot fully meet the needs of accurately identifying causal relationships by only learning simple event descriptions in sentences; Moreover, focusing too much on the events themselves often leads to neglecting the structural features of statements and neglecting the impact of specific structural patterns on the relationships between events. In this article, we propose an event masking algorithm that combines external semantics to address the aforementioned issues. In this algorithm, external semantics are first introduced into the statement to enrich the information behind the event, allowing the model to mine the deep connections between events through a wider range of background knowledge; Then, the event masking module is used to enhance the model's extraction of sentence structured features, mining specific contextual representations that are unrelated to the event. The results show that compared to existing neural network algorithms, the algorithm proposed in this paper improves the F1 value of predictions on publicly available datasets by more than 4%.