2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Paper IDSPE-45.2
Paper Title HAVE YOU MADE A DECISION? WHERE? A PILOT STUDY ON INTERPRETABILITY OF POLARITY ANALYSIS BASED ON ADVISING PROBLEM
Authors Tianda Li, Queen's University, Canada; Jia-Chen Gu, University of Science and Technology of China, China; Hui Liu, Queen's University, China; Quan Liu, iFLYTEK Research, China; Zhen-hua Ling, University of Science and Technology of China, China; Zhiming Su, iFLYTEK Research, China; Xiaodan Zhu, Queen's University, China
SessionSPE-45: Speech Analysis
LocationGather.Town
Session Time:Thursday, 10 June, 16:30 - 17:15
Presentation Time:Thursday, 10 June, 16:30 - 17:15
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Topic Speech Processing: [SPE-ANLS] Speech Analysis
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Abstract The general approaches for polarity analysis in dialogue, e.g. Multiple Instance Learning (MIL), have achieved significant progress. However, one significant drawback of current approaches is that the contribution of an utterance towards the polarity being a black-box. For existing methods, the polarity contained in each utterance, which we call meta-polarity, is not explicitly utilized. In this paper, we study the problem of adding interpretability to the overall polarity by predicting the meta-polarity at the same time. First, we reformulate a large advising dataset, where the meta-polarity of each utterance is given. Second, we propose an utterance classification model (UCM) and a two-stage progressive training method that strengthens the connection between the meta-polarity and the overall polarity. Experimental results show that our overall approach outperforms all competitive baselines by substantial margins, achieving a new state-of-the-art performance on this dataset.