Repository logo

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
  1. Home
  2. Academic and Research Output
  3. Conferences, Workshops, Symposiums, and Seminars
  4. Rationalization through Concepts
 
conference paper

Rationalization through Concepts

Antognini, Diego Matteo  
•
Faltings, Boi  
August 2, 2021
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021

Automated predictions require explanations to be interpretable by humans. One type of ex- planation is a rationale, i.e., a selection of in- put features such as relevant text snippets from which the model computes the outcome. How- ever, a single overall selection does not pro- vide a complete explanation, e.g., weighing several aspects for decisions. To this end, we present a novel self-interpretable model called ConRAT. Inspired by how human explanations for high-level decisions are often based on key concepts, ConRAT extracts a set of text snip- pets as concepts and infers which ones are de- scribed in the document. Then, it explains the outcome with a linear aggregation of concepts. Two regularizers drive ConRAT to build in- terpretable concepts. In addition, we propose two techniques to boost the rationale and pre- dictive performance further. Experiments on both single- and multi-aspect sentiment classi- fication tasks show that ConRAT is the first to generate concepts that align with human ratio- nalization while using only the overall label. Further, it outperforms state-of-the-art meth- ods trained on each aspect label independently.

  • Files
  • Details
  • Metrics
Loading...
Thumbnail Image
Name

2021.findings-acl.68.pdf

Type

Preprint

Version

Submitted version (Preprint)

Access type

openaccess

License Condition

copyright

Size

1.7 MB

Format

Adobe PDF

Checksum (MD5)

0712c2d7ee6cbb94e92e9a7ae6d6d04a

Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
  • Contact
  • infoscience@epfl.ch

  • Follow us on Facebook
  • Follow us on Instagram
  • Follow us on LinkedIn
  • Follow us on X
  • Follow us on Youtube
AccessibilityLegal noticePrivacy policyCookie settingsEnd User AgreementGet helpFeedback

Infoscience is a service managed and provided by the Library and IT Services of EPFL. © EPFL, tous droits réservés