The role of cause-effect link within scientific paper

Mengyun Cao; Xiaoping Sun; Hai Zhuge

doi:10.1109/SKG.2016.013

The role of cause-effect link within scientific paper

Mengyun Cao
, Xiaoping Sun
, Hai Zhuge

Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing

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7 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Semantic links within text play an important role in understanding text. Cause-effect link is one of the basic semantic links that represents logic order between representation components of text. The importance of cause-effect link has been recognized and investigated in linguistics, but it has not been accurately measured to support computing applications. This paper is to investigate the role of cause-effect link within scientific paper. Research is conducted along two paths: (1) Human observations: Professionals find cause-effect links within a set of given papers, and then observe the number, the distribution and the keywords coverage of cause-effect links within each paper. The statistical results show that cause-effect links cover 76% keywords within paper on average. (2) Automatically discover more cause-effect links within a set of papers by developing a pattern-based algorithm. The automatically discovered cause-effect links validate the properties drawn from human observations. Experiments show that the algorithm can extract more than 80% of manually labeled links, and the automatically extracted links contain 75% of keywords within paper on average.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2016 12th International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grids, SKG 2016
Editors	Hai Zhuge, Xiaoping Sun
Place of Publication	Piscataway, NJ (US)
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	32-39
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-5090-4795-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/SKG.2016.013
Publication status	Published - 11 Jan 2017
Event	12th International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grids, SKG 2016 - Beijing, China Duration: 15 Aug 2016 → 17 Aug 2016

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Conference	12th International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grids, SKG 2016
Country/Territory	China
City	Beijing
Period	15/08/16 → 17/08/16

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Keywords

causal relation
cause-effect link
natural language understanding
semantic link
semantic link network

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Cao, M, Sun, X & Zhuge, H 2017, The role of cause-effect link within scientific paper. in H Zhuge & X Sun (eds), Proceedings - 2016 12th International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grids, SKG 2016., 7815074, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ (US), pp. 32-39, 12th International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grids, SKG 2016, Beijing, China, 15/08/16. https://doi.org/10.1109/SKG.2016.013

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