Transfer Learning for Causal Sentence Detection
We consider the task of detecting sentences that express causality, as a step towards mining causal relations from texts. To bypass the scarcity of causal instances in relation extraction datasets, we exploit transfer learning, namely ELMO and BERT, using a bidirectional GRU with self-attention (BIGRUATT) as a baseline. We experiment with both generic public relation extraction datasets and a new biomedical causal sentence detection dataset, a subset of which we make publicly available. We find that transfer learning helps only in very small datasets. With larger datasets, BIGRUATT reaches a performance plateau, then larger datasets and transfer learning do not help.
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Methods
Adam •
Attention Dropout •
BERT •
BiLSTM •
Dense Connections •
Dropout •
ELMo •
GELU •
GRU •
Layer Normalization •
Linear Layer •
Linear Warmup With Linear Decay •
LSTM •
Multi-Head Attention •
Residual Connection •
Scaled Dot-Product Attention •
Sigmoid Activation •
Softmax •
Tanh Activation •
Weight Decay •
WordPiece
