Multi-Granularity Semantic Aware Graph Model for Reducing Position Bias in Emotion Cause Pair Extraction

Yinan Bao, Qianwen Ma, Lingwei Wei, Wei Zhou, Songlin Hu


Abstract
The emotion cause pair extraction (ECPE) task aims to extract emotions and causes as pairs from documents. We observe that the relative distance distribution of emotions and causes is extremely imbalanced in the typical ECPE dataset. Existing methods have set a fixed size window to capture relations between neighboring clauses. However, they neglect the effective semantic connections between distant clauses, leading to poor generalization ability towards position-insensitive data. To alleviate the problem, we propose a novel Multi-Granularity Semantic Aware Graph model (MGSAG) to incorporate fine-grained and coarse-grained semantic features jointly, without regard to distance limitation. In particular, we first explore semantic dependencies between clauses and keywords extracted from the document that convey fine-grained semantic features, obtaining keywords enhanced clause representations. Besides, a clause graph is also established to model coarse-grained semantic relations between clauses. Experimental results indicate that MGSAG surpasses the existing state-of-the-art ECPE models. Especially, MGSAG outperforms other models significantly in the condition of position-insensitive data.
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2022.findings-acl.95
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022
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May
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2022
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Dublin, Ireland
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Smaranda Muresan, Preslav Nakov, Aline Villavicencio
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1203–1213
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-acl.95
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.findings-acl.95
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Yinan Bao, Qianwen Ma, Lingwei Wei, Wei Zhou, and Songlin Hu. 2022. Multi-Granularity Semantic Aware Graph Model for Reducing Position Bias in Emotion Cause Pair Extraction. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022, pages 1203–1213, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Multi-Granularity Semantic Aware Graph Model for Reducing Position Bias in Emotion Cause Pair Extraction (Bao et al., Findings 2022)
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Data
Xia and Ding, 2019