arXiv:2605.03701cs.CLcs.AI2026-05ACL被引 1

用结构化例子增强大模型事件因果识别能力,减少错误因果推断。

SERE: Structural Example Retrieval for Enhancing LLMs in Event Causality Identification

论文配图:SERE: Structural Example Retrieval for Enhancing LLMs in Event Causality Identification
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  • 基于概念、句法和因果模式三类结构特征检索相关示例。
  • 在多个数据集上将因果识别准确率提升10%以上,显著降低误判。
  • 适合需要高可靠因果推理的文本分析场景,如医疗、金融领域。

事件因果识别(ECI)要求模型判断上下文中一对事件是否存在因果关系。尽管大语言模型(LLMs)在多项NLP任务中表现优异,但在ECI任务中仍受限于因果推理偏差,常出现过度预测因果关系(即因果幻觉)。为缓解此问题并提升LLM在ECI中的表现,本文提出SERE——一种基于结构化示例检索的增强框架,利用LLM的少样本学习能力。SERE引入三项基于结构的检索机制:(i) 概念路径度量,通过ConceptNet中的编辑距离衡量事件间概念关系;(ii) 句法度量,基于句法树的树编辑距离量化结构相似性;(iii) 因果模式过滤,借助LLM根据预设因果结构筛选示例。通过整合上述策略,SERE选择更相关的示例以引导模型进行因果推理,有效缓解偏差并提升准确性。在多个ECI数据集上的实验验证了该方法的有效性。源代码已公开于https://github.com/DMIRLAB-Group/SERE。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Event Causality Identification (ECI) requires models to determine whether a given pair of events in a context exhibits a causal relationship. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance across various NLP tasks, their effectiveness in ECI remains limited due to biases in causal reasoning, often leading to overprediction of causal relationships (causal hallucination). To mitigate these issues and enhance LLM performance in ECI, we propose SERE, a structural example retrieval framework that leverages LLMs' few-shot learning capabilities. SERE introduces an innovative retrieval mechanism based on three structural concepts: (i) Conceptual Path Metric, which measures the conceptual relationship between events using edit distance in ConceptNet; (ii) Syntactic Metric, which quantifies structural similarity through tree edit distance on syntactic trees; and (iii) Causal Pattern Filtering, which filters examples based on predefined causal structures using LLMs. By integrating these structural retrieval strategies, SERE selects more relevant examples to guide LLMs in causal reasoning, mitigating bias and improving accuracy in ECI tasks. Extensive experiments on multiple ECI datasets validate the effectiveness of SERE. The source code is publicly available at https://github.com/DMIRLAB-Group/SERE.

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