Causality Mining in Natural Languages Using Machine and Deep Learning Techniques: A Survey

The era of big textual corpora and machine learning technologies have paved the way for researchers in numerous data mining fields. Among them, causality mining (CM) from textual data has become a significant area of concern and has more attention from researchers. Causality (cause-effect relations)...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:294c402d938f4d3aa73570484483456e2021-11-11T15:08:23ZCausality Mining in Natural Languages Using Machine and Deep Learning Techniques: A Survey10.3390/app1121100642076-3417https://doaj.org/article/294c402d938f4d3aa73570484483456e2021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/21/10064https://doaj.org/toc/2076-3417The era of big textual corpora and machine learning technologies have paved the way for researchers in numerous data mining fields. Among them, causality mining (CM) from textual data has become a significant area of concern and has more attention from researchers. Causality (cause-effect relations) serves as an essential category of relationships, which plays a significant role in question answering, future events predication, discourse comprehension, decision making, future scenario generation, medical text mining, behavior prediction, and textual prediction entailment. While, decades of development techniques for CM are still prone to performance enhancement, especially for ambiguous and implicitly expressed causalities. The ineffectiveness of the early attempts is mainly due to small, ambiguous, heterogeneous, and domain-specific datasets constructed by manually linguistic and syntactic rules. Many researchers have deployed shallow machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) techniques to deal with such datasets, and they achieved satisfactory performance. In this survey, an effort has been made to address a comprehensive review of some state-of-the-art shallow ML and DL approaches in CM. We present a detailed taxonomy of CM and discuss popular ML and DL approaches with their comparative weaknesses and strengths, applications, popular datasets, and frameworks. Lastly, the future research challenges are discussed with illustrations of how to transform them into productive future research directions.Wajid AliWanli ZuoRahman AliXianglin ZuoGohar RahmanMDPI AGarticlecause-effect relationcausality surveycausality miningdeep learningcausality extractionrelation classificationTechnologyTEngineering (General). Civil engineering (General)TA1-2040Biology (General)QH301-705.5PhysicsQC1-999ChemistryQD1-999ENApplied Sciences, Vol 11, Iss 10064, p 10064 (2021)
institution DOAJ
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topic cause-effect relation
causality survey
causality mining
deep learning
causality extraction
relation classification
Technology
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Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
TA1-2040
Biology (General)
QH301-705.5
Physics
QC1-999
Chemistry
QD1-999
spellingShingle cause-effect relation
causality survey
causality mining
deep learning
causality extraction
relation classification
Technology
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Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
TA1-2040
Biology (General)
QH301-705.5
Physics
QC1-999
Chemistry
QD1-999
Wajid Ali
Wanli Zuo
Rahman Ali
Xianglin Zuo
Gohar Rahman
Causality Mining in Natural Languages Using Machine and Deep Learning Techniques: A Survey
description The era of big textual corpora and machine learning technologies have paved the way for researchers in numerous data mining fields. Among them, causality mining (CM) from textual data has become a significant area of concern and has more attention from researchers. Causality (cause-effect relations) serves as an essential category of relationships, which plays a significant role in question answering, future events predication, discourse comprehension, decision making, future scenario generation, medical text mining, behavior prediction, and textual prediction entailment. While, decades of development techniques for CM are still prone to performance enhancement, especially for ambiguous and implicitly expressed causalities. The ineffectiveness of the early attempts is mainly due to small, ambiguous, heterogeneous, and domain-specific datasets constructed by manually linguistic and syntactic rules. Many researchers have deployed shallow machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) techniques to deal with such datasets, and they achieved satisfactory performance. In this survey, an effort has been made to address a comprehensive review of some state-of-the-art shallow ML and DL approaches in CM. We present a detailed taxonomy of CM and discuss popular ML and DL approaches with their comparative weaknesses and strengths, applications, popular datasets, and frameworks. Lastly, the future research challenges are discussed with illustrations of how to transform them into productive future research directions.
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Wanli Zuo
Rahman Ali
Xianglin Zuo
Gohar Rahman
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Rahman Ali
Xianglin Zuo
Gohar Rahman
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title Causality Mining in Natural Languages Using Machine and Deep Learning Techniques: A Survey
title_short Causality Mining in Natural Languages Using Machine and Deep Learning Techniques: A Survey
title_full Causality Mining in Natural Languages Using Machine and Deep Learning Techniques: A Survey
title_fullStr Causality Mining in Natural Languages Using Machine and Deep Learning Techniques: A Survey
title_full_unstemmed Causality Mining in Natural Languages Using Machine and Deep Learning Techniques: A Survey
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