Shengyan Liu


2020

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YNU-oxz at SemEval-2020 Task 5: Detecting Counterfactuals Based on Ordered Neurons LSTM and Hierarchical Attention Network
Xiaozhi Ou | Shengyan Liu | Hongling Li
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation

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).