Challenge: Distant Supervision (DS) generates large-scale annotated data but has wrong labels that result in incorrect evaluation scores during testing.
Approach: They build a dataset using DS-generated data as training data and hire annotators to label test data.
Outcome: The proposed dataset NYTH has a much larger test set and performs more accurate and consistent evaluation.

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