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CausalNLP: A Practical Toolkit for Causal Inference with Text
Arun S. Maiya
Causal inference is the process of estimating the effect or impact of a treatment on an outcome with other covariates as potential confounders (and mediators) that may need to be controlled. The vast majority of existing methods and systems for causal inference assume that all variables under consideration are categorical or numerical (e.g., gender, price, enrollment). In this paper, we present CausalNLP, a toolkit for inferring causality with observational data that includes text in addition to traditional numerical and categorical variables. CausalNLP employs the use of meta learners for treatment effect estimation and supports using raw text and its linguistic properties as a treatment, an outcome, or a "controlled-for" variable (e.g., confounder). The library is open source and available at: https://github.com/amaiya/causalnlp.
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