Abstract
Causal explanation analysis (CEA) can assist us to understand the reasons behind daily events, which has been found very helpful for understanding the coherence of messages. In this paper, we focus on Causal Explanation Detection, an important subtask of causal explanation analysis, which determines whether a causal explanation exists in one message. We design a Pyramid Salient-Aware Network (PSAN) to detect causal explanations on messages. PSAN can assist in causal explanation detection via capturing the salient semantics of discourses contained in their keywords with a bottom graph-based word-level salient network. Furthermore, PSAN can modify the dominance of discourses via a top attention-based discourse-level salient network to enhance explanatory semantics of messages. The experiments on the commonly used dataset of CEA shows that the PSAN outperforms the state-of-the-art method by 1.8% F1 value on the Causal Explanation Detection task.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.ccl-1.84
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 19th Chinese National Conference on Computational Linguistics
- Month:
- October
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Haikou, China
- Editors:
- Maosong Sun (孙茂松), Sujian Li (李素建), Yue Zhang (张岳), Yang Liu (刘洋)
- Venue:
- CCL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Chinese Information Processing Society of China
- Note:
- Pages:
- 903–914
- Language:
- English
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.ccl-1.84
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Xinyu Zuo, Yubo Chen, Kang Liu, and Jun Zhao. 2020. Towards Causal Explanation Detection with Pyramid Salient-Aware Network. In Proceedings of the 19th Chinese National Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 903–914, Haikou, China. Chinese Information Processing Society of China.
- Cite (Informal):
- Towards Causal Explanation Detection with Pyramid Salient-Aware Network (Zuo et al., CCL 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/landing_page/2020.ccl-1.84.pdf