Causal Inference in Natural Language Processing: Estimation, Prediction, Interpretation and Beyond

Feder, Amir, Keith, Katherine A., Manzoor, Emaad, Pryzant, Reid, Sridhar, Dhanya, Wood-Doughty, Zach, Eisenstein, Jacob, Grimmer, Justin, Reichart, Roi, Roberts, Margaret E., Stewart, Brandon M., Veitch, Victor, Yang, Diyi·2022·Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI 10.1162/tacl_a_00511

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