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Despite substantial progress, most current approaches depend on sequence modeling or standard attention mechanisms, which frequently overlook intricate inter-sentential relationships and fail to utilize causal commonsense knowledge to enhance semantic links between clauses. To address these limitations, this paper introduces KESIF, a novel emotion\u2013cause pair extraction model that integrates knowledge enhancement with enriched semantic information for improved performance. The proposed model incorporates a graph attention network to capture semantic dependency relationships between sentences, integrates causal commonsense knowledge from the ATOMIC knowledge base to enrich semantic representations, and utilizes a bidirectional MRC mechanism for achieving effective bidirectional matching between emotions and causes. The model\u2019s performance is assessed using core metrics, such as precision, recall, and F1 score. 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