Table 8 xFiTRNNs’ LIME interpretations of four test cases.

From: A hybrid self attentive linearized phrase structured transformer based RNN for financial sentence analysis with sentence level explainability

Test

Sentence

P(negative)

P(positive)

P(neutral)

Features count

Highlighted words

Weights

1

“Operating result

including non-recurring

items rose

to EUR 146 mn

from a loss

of EUR 267 mn

in 2009.”

0.27

0.31

0.42

10

1. EUR

2. Operating

3. including

4. rose

5. to

6. result

7. 146mn

8. non

9. in

10. 2009

+ 0.02

– 0.02

– 0.01

– 0.01

– 0.01

+ 0.00

– 0.00

– 0.00

– 0.00

+ 0.00

2

“Market share

decreased on the route

between Helsinki in

Finland and Tallinn in

Estonia by 0.1

percentage points

to 24.8%.”

0.33

0.42

0.24

10

1. Market

2. share

3. Estonia

4. route

5. decreased

6. Tallinn

7. points

8. 8

9. Finland

10. in

+ 0.02

+ 0.01

+ 0.01

+ 0.01

+ 0.01

+ 0.01

+ 0.00

+ 0.00

– 0.00

– 0.00

3

“Finnish software

developer Basware Oyj

said on November 30 , 2006

its U.S. subsidiary Basware,

Inc. won an order to

provide software for

contract lifecycle

management to an

unnamed U.S.

medical technology

company.”

0.31

0.40

0.29

10

1. Finnish

2. an

3. contract

4. technology

5. said

6. Basware

7. won

8. to

9. 2006

10. on

+ 0.01

+ 0.01

+ 0.01

+ 0.01

– 0.01

+ 0.01

+ 0.01

– 0.00

– 0.00

– 0.00

4

“Operating profit rose

to EUR 27.8 mn

from EUR

17.5 mn in 2008.”

0.34

0.39

0.27

10

1. EUR

2. from

3. profit

4. in

5. 27

6. 17

7. to

8. rose

9. 2008

10. 5

+ 0.02

– 0.02

+ 0.01

– 0.01

+ 0.01

+ 0.01

– 0.01

– 0.01

– 0.01

+ 0.00