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Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction as Question Answering

Computation and Language 2023-01-09 v2

Abstract

The task of Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction (ECPE) aims to extract all potential emotion-cause pairs of a document without any annotation of emotion or cause clauses. Previous approaches on ECPE have tried to improve conventional two-step processing schemes by using complex architectures for modeling emotion-cause interaction. In this paper, we cast the ECPE task to the question answering (QA) problem and propose simple yet effective BERT-based solutions to tackle it. Given a document, our Guided-QA model first predicts the best emotion clause using a fixed question. Then the predicted emotion is used as a question to predict the most potential cause for the emotion. We evaluate our model on a standard ECPE corpus. The experimental results show that despite its simplicity, our Guided-QA achieves promising results and is easy to reproduce. The code of Guided-QA is also provided.

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@article{arxiv.2301.01982,
  title  = {Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction as Question Answering},
  author = {Huu-Hiep Nguyen and Minh-Tien Nguyen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.01982},
  year   = {2023}
}

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