Causal Inference in Natural Language Processing: Estimation, Prediction, Interpretation and Beyond
AbstractA fundamental goal of scientific research is to learn about causal relationships. However, despite its critical role in the life and social sciences, causality has not had the same importance in Natural Language Processing (NLP), which has traditionally placed more emphasis o...
Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , , , , |
---|---|
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
The MIT Press
2022-01-01
|
Series: | Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics |
Online Access: | https://direct.mit.edu/tacl/article/doi/10.1162/tacl_a_00511/113490/Causal-Inference-in-Natural-Language-Processing |