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Approach: They propose a high-quality dataset for TSC on news articles with key differences compared to established datasets.
Outcome: The proposed model improves the state-of-the-art from 81.7 to 83.1 (real-world sentiment distribution) and 82.5 (multi-target sentences) compared to established datasets.

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