“…Studies on ECPE [ 15 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 ] have solved this problem by dividing it into emotion and cause extraction stages to extract emotions and their causes. When finding the emotion–cause pair in a two-step process, the emotion is extracted in the first step, the cause is extracted in the next step, and the method of connecting the extracted cause and the result of the emotion differs according to the specific study.…”