Challenge: Existing work on event argument extraction (EE) is limited due to data scarcity and lack of a model encoder.
Approach: They propose to capture the long-range dependency between an event trigger and a distant event argument using unlabeled data.
Outcome: Experiments on the English ACE 2005 benchmark show that the proposed method achieves a new state-of-the-art.

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