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Rationalization through Concepts

Antognini, Diego Matteo  
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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.

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conference paper
DOI
10.18653/v1/2021.findings-acl.68
Author(s)
Antognini, Diego Matteo  
Faltings, Boi  
Date Issued

2021-08-02

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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021
Total of pages

15

Start page

761

End page

775

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REVIEWED

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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021

Virtual, Bangkok

August 1-6, 2021

Available on Infoscience
February 14, 2023
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