A New Surprise Measure for Extracting Interesting Relationships between Persons (2021.eacl-demos)
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| Challenge: | Interesting facts are useful information for a variety of important tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that extracts all personal relationships from dependency trees and calculates surprise scores for distributed representations of the extracted relationships in an unsupervised manner. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method extracts all personal relationships from dependency trees for the texts and calculates surprise scores for distributed representations of the extracted relationships in an unsupervised manner. |
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