YNU-oxz at SemEval-2020 Task 5: Detecting Counterfactuals Based on Ordered Neurons LSTM and Hierarchical Attention Network

Xiaozhi Ou, Shengyan Liu, Hongling Li


Abstract
This paper describes the system and results of our team’s participation in SemEval-2020 Task5: Modelling Causal Reasoning in Language: Detecting Counterfactuals, which aims to simulate counterfactual semantics and reasoning in natural language. This task contains two subtasks: Subtask1–Detecting counterfactual statements and Subtask2–Detecting antecedent and consequence. We only participated in Subtask1, aiming to determine whether a given sentence is counterfactual. In order to solve this task, we proposed a system based on Ordered Neurons LSTM (ON-LSTM) with Hierarchical Attention Network (HAN) and used Pooling operation for dimensionality reduction. Finally, we used the K-fold approach as the ensemble method. Our model achieved an F1 score of 0.7040 in Subtask1 (Ranked 16/27).
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2020.semeval-1.89
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Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
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December
Year:
2020
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Barcelona (online)
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Aurelie Herbelot, Xiaodan Zhu, Alexis Palmer, Nathan Schneider, Jonathan May, Ekaterina Shutova
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SemEval
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SIGLEX
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International Committee for Computational Linguistics
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683–689
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.89
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.semeval-1.89
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Xiaozhi Ou, Shengyan Liu, and Hongling Li. 2020. YNU-oxz at SemEval-2020 Task 5: Detecting Counterfactuals Based on Ordered Neurons LSTM and Hierarchical Attention Network. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pages 683–689, Barcelona (online). International Committee for Computational Linguistics.
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YNU-oxz at SemEval-2020 Task 5: Detecting Counterfactuals Based on Ordered Neurons LSTM and Hierarchical Attention Network (Ou et al., SemEval 2020)
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