EBBE-Text : Visualisation de la frontière de décision des réseaux de neurones en classification automatique de textes
Abstract
In text classification, many recent works deal with the interpretation of neural networks by
producing explanations of predictions. The original approach presented in this paper consists
in visualizing the decision boundary and the positioning of our data with respect to it, thus
offering a new approach to explanation. Our method first computes a sentence representation
space and then exploits its linear structure in order to visualize the distribution and clustering
of data around the decision boundary. The main contribution of our method is the decision
boundary visualization process, allowing to explore the distance to the decision boundary (and
thus the certainty of a network in its predictions) but also the paths leading to it or the proximity
between sentences.