Pei-Wei Kao


2020

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NTUNLPL at FinCausal 2020, Task 2:Improving Causality Detection Using Viterbi Decoder
Pei-Wei Kao | Chung-Chi Chen | Hen-Hsen Huang | Hsin-Hsi Chen
Proceedings of the 1st Joint Workshop on Financial Narrative Processing and MultiLing Financial Summarisation

In order to provide an explanation of machine learning models, causality detection attracts lots of attention in the artificial intelligence research community. In this paper, we explore the cause-effect detection in financial news and propose an approach, which combines the BIO scheme with the Viterbi decoder for addressing this challenge. Our approach is ranked the first in the official run of cause-effect detection (Task 2) of the FinCausal-2020 shared task. We not only report the implementation details and ablation analysis in this paper, but also publish our code for academic usage.