arXiv:2506.01488cs.CLcs.IR2025-06

通过因果干预消除事件指代中的表面词偏见,提升跨文档事件消歧准确率。

Argument-Centric Causal Intervention Method for Mitigating Bias in Cross-Document Event Coreference Resolution

  • 构建因果图识别词汇触发词与指代关系的混淆因素,实施反事实干预。
  • 在ECB+和GVC数据集上分别达到88.4%和85.2%的CoNLL F1,性能领先。
  • 无需数据增强或启发式过滤,端到端实现去偏,适合高精度事件分析场景。

跨文档事件指代消解(CD-ECR)是自然语言处理中的基础任务,旨在判断多篇文档中事件提及是否指向同一真实事件。然而,现有方法主要依赖输入提及对中的触发词特征,导致表层词汇特征与指代关系之间产生虚假相关,影响模型整体性能。为此,本文提出基于论元中心因果干预(ACCI)的新方法。首先构建结构因果图,揭示词汇触发词与指代标签间的混淆依赖关系;引入后门调整干预,隔离论元语义的真实因果效应。为进一步缓解虚假相关,ACCI融合反事实推理模块以量化触发词扰动的因果影响,并设计论元感知增强模块,强化对语义基础信息的敏感性。相比依赖昂贵数据增强或启发式过滤的旧方法,ACCI在不改变训练流程的前提下,实现了统一的端到端去偏。大量实验表明,其在ECB+数据集上取得88.4%的CoNLL F1,GVC数据集上达85.2%,达到当前最优水平。代码与材料已公开于https://github.com/era211/ACCI。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Cross-document Event Coreference Resolution (CD-ECR) is a fundamental task in natural language processing (NLP) that seeks to determine whether event mentions across multiple documents refer to the same real-world occurrence. However, current CD-ECR approaches predominantly rely on trigger features within input mention pairs, which induce spurious correlations between surface-level lexical features and coreference relationships, impairing the overall performance of the models. To address this issue, we propose a novel cross-document event coreference resolution method based on Argument-Centric Causal Intervention (ACCI). Specifically, we construct a structural causal graph to uncover confounding dependencies between lexical triggers and coreference labels, and introduce backdoor-adjusted interventions to isolate the true causal effect of argument semantics. To further mitigate spurious correlations, ACCI integrates a counterfactual reasoning module that quantifies the causal influence of trigger word perturbations, and an argument-aware enhancement module to promote greater sensitivity to semantically grounded information. In contrast to prior methods that depend on costly data augmentation or heuristic-based filtering, ACCI enables effective debiasing in a unified end-to-end framework without altering the underlying training procedure. Extensive experiments demonstrate that ACCI achieves CoNLL F1 of 88.4% on ECB+ and 85.2% on GVC, achieving state-of-the-art performance. The implementation and materials are available at https://github.com/era211/ACCI.

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