Challenge: Existing methods for relation extraction use heuristics or distant-supervised annotations, but distant supervised methods make strong assumptions on entity cooccurrence without sufficient contexts.
Approach: They propose a framework that exploits weak, self-supervised signals by leveraging large pretrained language models for adaptive clustering on contextualized relational features.
Outcome: The proposed framework exploits weak, self-supervised signals on open-domain Relation Extraction . it bootstraps the self-supervised signals by improving contextualized features in relation classification .

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