Causality extraction is a kind of relation extraction task in Natural Language Processing (NLP), which mines event pairs with causality from text by constructing event graph, and play important role in applications of finance, security, biology and other fields. Firstly, the concepts such as event extraction and causality were introduced, and the evolution of mainstream methods and the common datasets of causality extraction were described. Then, the current mainstream causality extraction models were listed. Based on the detailed analysis of pipeline based models and joint extraction models, the advantages and disadvantages of various methods and models were compared. Furthermore, the experimental performance and related experimental data of the models were summarized and analyzed. Finally, the research difficulties and future key research directions of causality extraction were given.

Natural Language Generation (NLG) technologies use artificial intelligence and linguistic methods to automatically generate understandable natural language texts. The difficulty of communication between human and computer is reduced by NLG, which is widely used in machine news writing, chatbot and other fields, and has become one of the research hotspots of artificial intelligence. Firstly, the current mainstream methods and models of NLG were listed, and the advantages and disadvantages of these methods and models were compared in detail. Then, aiming at three NLG technologies:text-to-text, data-to-text and image-to-text, the application fields, existing problems and current research progresses were summarized and analyzed respectively. Furthermore, the common evaluation methods and their application scopes of the above generation technologies were described. Finally, the development trends and research difficulties of NLG technologies were given.