Emotion Cause Extraction

Overview

paper

Emotion cause extraction is one of the most important applications in natural language processing tasks. It is a difficult challenge due to the complex semantic information between emotion description and the whole document. In this research we proposed a Hierarchical Network Based Clause Selection (HCS) framework in which the similarity is calculated by considering document features from word’s position, different semantic level (word and phrase) and interaction among clauses, respectively.

Experiment Detials

Dataset

Experimental study on a Chinese emotion-cause corpus has shown the proposed framework’s effectiveness and potential of integrating different level’s information. The overview of dataset is like this:

World Level Attention

• Position

post_att = tf.expand_dims(tf.convert_to_tensor([(1 - i/self.length) for i in range(self.length)]),-1)
post_matrix = tf.reshape(tf.reduce_sum(tf.tensordot(tf.transpose(x1,[1,0,2,3]), post_att, 0),-2), x2.get_shape())

• Content

 x = tf.multiply(post_matrix, x2)
 attention_mul = tf.multiply(tf.nn.softmax(x), x)

Phrase Network

      LI_1, LO_1, RI_1, RO_1 = CNN_layer(variable_scope="CNN-1", x1=L_init1, x2=L_init2, d=embedding_size)
      ...

Clause Network

      with tf.name_scope("BiGRU"):
          cells = [dropout() for _ in range(num_layers)]
          # print("cells: ", tf.shape(cells))
          rnn_cell = tf.contrib.rnn.MultiRNNCell(cells, state_is_tuple=True)
          _outputs, _ = tf.nn.dynamic_rnn(cell=rnn_cell, inputs=x_combine, dtype=tf.float32)
          last = _outputs[:, -1, :]

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A PyTorch verson is already under work.
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