Hierarchical Interpretation of Neural Text Classification

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2202.09792v1
• Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2022 11:15:03 GMT
• Title: Hierarchical Interpretation of Neural Text Classification
• Authors: Hanqi Yan, Lin Gui, Yulan He
• Abstract summary: This paper proposes a novel Hierarchical INTerpretable neural text classifier, called Hint, which can automatically generate explanations of model predictions. Experimental results on both review datasets and news datasets show that our proposed approach achieves text classification results on par with existing state-of-the-art text classifiers.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Recent years have witnessed increasing interests in developing interpretable models in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Most existing models aim at identifying input features such as words or phrases important for model predictions. Neural models developed in NLP however often compose word semantics in a hierarchical manner. Interpretation by words or phrases only thus cannot faithfully explain model decisions. This paper proposes a novel Hierarchical INTerpretable neural text classifier, called Hint, which can automatically generate explanations of model predictions in the form of label-associated topics in a hierarchical manner. Model interpretation is no longer at the word level, but built on topics as the basic semantic unit. Experimental results on both review datasets and news datasets show that our proposed approach achieves text classification results on par with existing state-of-the-art text classifiers, and generates interpretations more faithful to model predictions and better understood by humans than other interpretable neural text classifiers.

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