A novel explainable structure for text classification

Lifeng Chen, Yugang Li, Huaping Zhang*, Shunping Wei

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

With the development of deep learning, text classification has achieved very good results, but the poor interpretability of the model still limits its application in practical scenarios to a certain extent. Many explainable text classifiers extract words from a sentence and then observe their effect on increasing or decreasing classification accuracy. However, in many cases, the relationship between words in a sentence is interdependent and closely related. On account of the above, selecting words individually often has little effect on the classification results. To address the above situation, we propose a new model which treats interpretability as an intrinsic property, using constituent trees to generate continuous interpretable words instead of isolated words and it achieves good results on several datasets.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2022 European Conference on Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval, ECNLPIR 2022
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages92-95
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781665473828
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event2022 European Conference on Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval, ECNLPIR 2022 - Virtual, Online, China
Duration: 19 Nov 202221 Nov 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2022 European Conference on Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval, ECNLPIR 2022

Conference

Conference2022 European Conference on Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval, ECNLPIR 2022
Country/TerritoryChina
CityVirtual, Online
Period19/11/2221/11/22

Keywords

  • constituent tree
  • explainable
  • text classification

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