Emotion-cause pair extraction(ECPE)aims to extract all the pairs of emotions and corresponding causes in a document.It generally contains three subtasks,emotions extraction,causes extraction,and causal relations detec...Emotion-cause pair extraction(ECPE)aims to extract all the pairs of emotions and corresponding causes in a document.It generally contains three subtasks,emotions extraction,causes extraction,and causal relations detection between emotions and causes.Existing works adopt pipelined approaches or multi-task learning to address the ECPE task.However,the pipelined approaches easily suffer from error propagation in real-world scenarios.Typical multi-task learning cannot optimize all tasks globally and may lead to suboptimal extraction results.To address these issues,we propose a novel framework,Pairwise Tagging Framework(PTF),tackling the complete emotion-cause pair extraction in one unified tagging task.Unlike prior works,PTF innovatively transforms all subtasks of ECPE,i.e.,emotions extraction,causes extraction,and causal relations detection between emotions and causes,into one unified clause-pair tagging task.Through this unified tagging task,we can optimize the ECPE task globally and extract more accurate emotion-cause pairs.To validate the feasibility and effectiveness of PTF,we design an end-to-end PTF-based neural network and conduct experiments on the ECPE benchmark dataset.The experimental results show that our method outperforms pipelined approaches significantly and typical multi-task learning approaches.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(Grant Nos.61976114 and 61936012)the National Key R&D Program of China(2018YFB1005102).
文摘Emotion-cause pair extraction(ECPE)aims to extract all the pairs of emotions and corresponding causes in a document.It generally contains three subtasks,emotions extraction,causes extraction,and causal relations detection between emotions and causes.Existing works adopt pipelined approaches or multi-task learning to address the ECPE task.However,the pipelined approaches easily suffer from error propagation in real-world scenarios.Typical multi-task learning cannot optimize all tasks globally and may lead to suboptimal extraction results.To address these issues,we propose a novel framework,Pairwise Tagging Framework(PTF),tackling the complete emotion-cause pair extraction in one unified tagging task.Unlike prior works,PTF innovatively transforms all subtasks of ECPE,i.e.,emotions extraction,causes extraction,and causal relations detection between emotions and causes,into one unified clause-pair tagging task.Through this unified tagging task,we can optimize the ECPE task globally and extract more accurate emotion-cause pairs.To validate the feasibility and effectiveness of PTF,we design an end-to-end PTF-based neural network and conduct experiments on the ECPE benchmark dataset.The experimental results show that our method outperforms pipelined approaches significantly and typical multi-task learning approaches.
