Emotion-cause pair extraction (ECPE) main focus is on extracting all potential emotion clauses and corresponding cause clauses from unannotated documents. Existing methods achieve promising results with the help of fine-tuning and prompt paradigms, but they present three downsides. First, most approaches cannot distinguish between the emotion-cause pairs that belong to different types of emotions, limiting the ...
Emotion-cause pair extraction (ECPE) aims to identify all emotion and cause clauses in documents, forming emotion-cause pairs (ECPs). Although existing methods have achieved some success, they face issues such as overlooking the impact of emotion experiencers, failing to leverage specific domain knowledge, and tending to spurious correlations. To address these issues, we transform the ECPE task into a multi-ste...