Research Article

A Method to Extract Causality for Safety Events in Chemical Accidents from Fault Trees and Accident Reports

Table 1

Notations and meanings.

NotationMeaning

FT (V, G, E, v0)Fault tree, where V is the set of nodes, G is the set of gates, E is the set of edges, and is the root node
VM, VLSet of intermediate nodes and set of leaf nodes
EEG = (V, E)The expression of event evolutionary graph, where V is the set of nodes and E is the set of edges
Ψ(.)The function that returns the input events for a given logic gate
(.)The function that returns the output event for a given logic gate
e = {o, , p, t}Event e, where o, , p, and t are used to represent the event participants, event trigger word, location, and timestamp of event occurrence, respectively
SRL(.)Semantic role labeling function
SDP(.)Semantic dependency parsing function
DP(.)Dependency parsing function
πF(S, e)The function to judge whether e fails given the set S of failed BE
P(.)Probability function
Pc(., .)The cooccurrence probability function
PMIPointwise mutual information
ztThe update gate of GRU unit
rtThe reset gate of GRU unit
xtThe input of GRU unit
htThe hidden layer information at the current moment
ht-1The hidden layer information at the previous moment
The candidate hidden layer information at the current moment
WThe weight matrix
σThe sigmoid activation function
tanhThe tanh activation function
The vector concatenating function
αitThe normalized word weight of sentence si
siThe sentence vector
uiThe hidden representation of sentence vector si
αiThe normalized sentence weight of sentence set Sepq
The vector for Sepq
μtThe average value of input data
ΣtThe input variance
G, bThe bias constants
f (.)The linear transformation function
ΖThe regularization parameter
H(.)The cross-entropy function