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Multi-Dimensional Explanation of Target Variables from Documents

Antognini, Diego  
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Musat, Claudiu  
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Faltings, Boi  
January 1, 2021
Thirty-Fifth Aaai Conference On Artificial Intelligence, Thirty-Third Conference On Innovative Applications Of Artificial Intelligence And The Eleventh Symposium On Educational Advances In Artificial Intelligence
35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence / 33rd Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence / 11th Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence

Automated predictions require explanations to be interpretable by humans. Past work used attention and rationale mechanisms to find words that predict the target variable of a document. Often though, they result in a tradeoff between noisy explanations or a drop in accuracy. Furthermore, rationale methods cannot capture the multi-faceted nature of justifications for multiple targets, because of the non-probabilistic nature of the mask. In this paper, we propose the Multi-Target Masker (MTM) to address these shortcomings. The novelty lies in the soft multi-dimensional mask that models a relevance probability distribution over the set of target variables to handle ambiguities. Additionally, two regularizers guide MTM to induce long, meaningful explanations. We evaluate MTM on two datasets and show, using standard metrics and human annotations, that the resulting masks are more accurate and coherent than those generated by the state-of-the-art methods. Moreover, MTM is the first to also achieve the highest F1 scores for all the target variables simultaneously.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1609/aaai.v35i14.17483
Web of Science ID

WOS:000681269804021

Author(s)
Antognini, Diego  
Musat, Claudiu  
Faltings, Boi  
Date Issued

2021-01-01

Publisher

ASSOC ADVANCEMENT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Publisher place

Palo Alto

Published in
Thirty-Fifth Aaai Conference On Artificial Intelligence, Thirty-Third Conference On Innovative Applications Of Artificial Intelligence And The Eleventh Symposium On Educational Advances In Artificial Intelligence
ISBN of the book

978-1-57735-866-4

Series title/Series vol.

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence; 35

Start page

12507

End page

12515

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence / 33rd Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence / 11th Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence

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Feb 02-09, 2021

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September 25, 2021
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/181619
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