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CausalNLP is a practical toolkit for causal inference with text as treatment, outcome, or "controlled-for" variable.
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CausalNLP is a practical toolkit for causal inference with text as treatment, outcome, or "controlled-for" variable.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/amaiya/causalnlp
- Owner: amaiya
- License: apache-2.0
- Created: 2021-05-30T00:48:47.000Z (over 3 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-06-15T16:46:24.000Z (7 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-01-15T06:00:15.272Z (10 days ago)
- Topics: causal-inference, nlp
- Language: Jupyter Notebook
- Homepage: https://amaiya.github.io/causalnlp/
- Size: 15.6 MB
- Stars: 144
- Watchers: 7
- Forks: 11
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# Welcome to CausalNLP
## What is CausalNLP?
> CausalNLP is a practical toolkit for causal inference with text as
> treatment, outcome, or “controlled-for” variable.
## Features
- Low-code [causal
inference](https://amaiya.github.io/causalnlp/examples.html) in as
little as two commands
- Out-of-the-box support for using [**text** as a “controlled-for”
variable](https://amaiya.github.io/causalnlp/examples.html#What-is-the-causal-impact-of-a-positive-review-on-product-views?)
(e.g., confounder)
- Built-in
[Autocoder](https://amaiya.github.io/causalnlp/autocoder.html) that
transforms raw text into useful variables for causal analyses (e.g.,
topics, sentiment, emotion, etc.)
- Sensitivity analysis to [assess robustness of causal
estimates](https://amaiya.github.io/causalnlp/causalinference.html#CausalInferenceModel.evaluate_robustness)
- Quick and simple [key driver
analysis](https://amaiya.github.io/causalnlp/key_driver_analysis.html)
to yield clues on potential drivers of an outcome based on predictive
power, correlations, etc.
- Can easily be applied to [“traditional” tabular datasets without
text](https://amaiya.github.io/causalnlp/examples.html#What-is-the-causal-impact-of-having-a-PhD-on-making-over-$50K?)
(i.e., datasets with only numerical and categorical variables)
- Includes an experimental [PyTorch
implementation](https://amaiya.github.io/causalnlp/core.causalbert.html)
of [CausalBert](https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.12741) by Veitch, Sridar,
and Blei (based on [reference
implementation](https://github.com/rpryzant/causal-bert-pytorch) by R.
Pryzant)
## Install
1. `pip install -U pip`
2. `pip install causalnlp`
**NOTE**: On Python 3.6.x, if you get a
`RuntimeError: Python version >= 3.7 required`, try ensuring NumPy is
installed **before** CausalNLP (e.g., `pip install numpy==1.18.5`).
## Usage
To try out the
[examples](https://amaiya.github.io/causalnlp/examples.html) yourself:
### Example: What is the causal impact of a positive review on a product click?
``` python
import pandas as pd
```
``` python
df = pd.read_csv('sample_data/music_seed50.tsv', sep='\t', on_bad_lines='skip')
```
The file `music_seed50.tsv` is a semi-simulated dataset from
[here](https://github.com/rpryzant/causal-text). Columns of relevance
include: - `Y_sim`: outcome, where 1 means product was clicked and 0
means not. - `text`: raw text of review - `rating`: rating associated
with review (1 through 5) - `T_true`: 0 means rating less than 3, 1
means rating of 5, where `T_true` affects the outcome `Y_sim`. - `T_ac`:
an approximation of true review sentiment (`T_true`) created with
[Autocoder](https://amaiya.github.io/causalnlp/autocoder.html) from raw
review text - `C_true`:confounding categorical variable (1=audio CD,
0=other)
We’ll pretend the true sentiment (i.e., review rating and `T_true`) is
hidden and only use `T_ac` as the treatment variable.
Using the `text_col` parameter, we include the raw review text as
another “controlled-for” variable.
``` python
from causalnlp import CausalInferenceModel
from lightgbm import LGBMClassifier
```
``` python
cm = CausalInferenceModel(df,
metalearner_type='t-learner', learner=LGBMClassifier(num_leaves=500),
treatment_col='T_ac', outcome_col='Y_sim', text_col='text',
include_cols=['C_true'])
cm.fit()
```
outcome column (categorical): Y_sim
treatment column: T_ac
numerical/categorical covariates: ['C_true']
text covariate: text
preprocess time: 1.1179866790771484 sec
start fitting causal inference model
time to fit causal inference model: 10.361494302749634 sec
#### Estimating Treatment Effects
CausalNLP supports estimation of heterogeneous treatment effects (i.e.,
how causal impacts vary across observations, which could be documents,
emails, posts, individuals, or organizations).
We will first calculate the overall average treatment effect (or ATE),
which shows that a positive review increases the probability of a click
by **13 percentage points** in this dataset.
**Average Treatment Effect** (or **ATE**):
``` python
print( cm.estimate_ate() )
```
{'ate': 0.1309311542209525}
**Conditional Average Treatment Effect** (or **CATE**): reviews that
mention the word “toddler”:
``` python
print( cm.estimate_ate(df['text'].str.contains('toddler')) )
```
{'ate': 0.15559234254638685}
**Individualized Treatment Effects** (or **ITE**):
``` python
test_df = pd.DataFrame({'T_ac' : [1], 'C_true' : [1],
'text' : ['I never bought this album, but I love his music and will soon!']})
effect = cm.predict(test_df)
print(effect)
```
[[0.80538201]]
**Model Interpretability**:
``` python
print( cm.interpret(plot=False)[1][:10] )
```
v_music 0.079042
v_cd 0.066838
v_album 0.055168
v_like 0.040784
v_love 0.040635
C_true 0.039949
v_just 0.035671
v_song 0.035362
v_great 0.029918
v_heard 0.028373
dtype: float64
Features with the `v_` prefix are word features. `C_true` is the
categorical variable indicating whether or not the product is a CD.
### Text is Optional in CausalNLP
Despite the “NLP” in CausalNLP, the library can be used for causal
inference on data **without** text (e.g., only numerical and categorical
variables). See [the
examples](https://amaiya.github.io/causalnlp/examples.html#What-is-the-causal-impact-of-having-a-PhD-on-making-over-$50K?)
for more info.
## Documentation
API documentation and additional usage examples are available at:
https://amaiya.github.io/causalnlp/
## How to Cite
Please cite [the following paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.08043) when
using CausalNLP in your work:
@article{maiya2021causalnlp,
title={CausalNLP: A Practical Toolkit for Causal Inference with Text},
author={Arun S. Maiya},
year={2021},
eprint={2106.08043},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.08043},
}