ECHo: A Visio-Linguistic Dataset for Event Causality Inference via Human-Centric Reasoning

Yuxi Xie, Guanzhen Li, Min-Yen Kan


Abstract
We introduce ECHo (Event Causality Inference via Human-Centric Reasoning), a diagnostic dataset of event causality inference grounded in visio-linguistic social scenarios. ECHo employs real-world human-centric deductive information building on a television crime drama. ECHo requires the Theory-of-Mind (ToM) ability to understand and reason about social interactions based on multimodal information. Using ECHo, we propose a unified Chain-of-Thought (CoT) framework to assess the reasoning capability of current AI systems. Our ToM-enhanced CoT pipeline accommodates various large foundation models in both zero-shot and few-shot visio-linguistic reasoning. We use this framework to scrutinize recent large foundation models such as InstructGPT and MiniGPT-4 on three diagnostic human-centric tasks. Further analysis demonstrates ECHo as a challenging dataset to expose imperfections and inconsistencies in reasoning. Our data and code are publicly available at [https://github.com/YuxiXie/ECHo](https://github.com/YuxiXie/ECHo).
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2023.findings-emnlp.268
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023
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December
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2023
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Singapore
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Houda Bouamor, Juan Pino, Kalika Bali
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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4064–4085
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.268
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.268
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Yuxi Xie, Guanzhen Li, and Min-Yen Kan. 2023. ECHo: A Visio-Linguistic Dataset for Event Causality Inference via Human-Centric Reasoning. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, pages 4064–4085, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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