Document-level Event Causality Identification (DECI) aims to identify causal relations among multiple events within unstructured text. Existing methods predominantly rely on local semantic similarity for independent event-pair discrimination, thereby overlooking the influence of the overall narrative backbone in the propagation of causal dependencies and the role differentiation of events within multi-cause/multi-effect structures. Therefore, we propose a suggest-verify-revise approach for document-level Event Causality Identification with narrative consistency (SVRECI). In the suggest stage, we integrate multi-dimensional heuristic causal suggestions generated by an LLM with structural suggestions derived from hypergraph modeling to provide multi-source initial support for candidate event pairs. In the verify stage, we introduce a Topological Hawkes process to perform constrained verification of narrative propagation consistency among events. In the revise stage, we construct a dynamically evolving document-level causal graph and incorporate a structure-aware dual-level contrastive learning mechanism at both the event and event-pair levels, iteratively reducing noisy edges over multiple iterations. Experimental results on EventStoryLine and Causal-TimeBank datasets demonstrate that our approach outperforms previous methods.

Event Causal Identification (ECI) aims to identify fine-grained causal relationships between events from unstructured text. Contrastive learning has shown promise in enhancing ECI by optimizing representation distances between positive and negative samples. However, existing methods often rely on rule-based or random sampling strategies, which may introduce spurious causal positives. Moreover, static negative samples often fail to approximate actual decision boundaries, thus limiting discriminative performance. Therefore, we propose an ECI method enhanced by Dynamic Energy-based Contrastive Learning with multi-stage knowledge Verification (DECLV). Specifically, we integrate multi-source knowledge validation and LLM-driven causal inference to construct a multi-stage knowledge validation mechanism, which generates high-quality contrastive samples and effectively suppresses spurious causal disturbances. Meanwhile, we introduce the Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics (SGLD) method to dynamically generate adversarial negative samples, and employ an energy-based function to model the causal boundary between positive and negative samples. The experimental results show that our method outperforms previous state-of-the-art methods on both benchmarks, EventStoryLine and Causal-TimeBank.