Challenge: Prior work on information extraction tends to focus on binary relations within sentences . practical applications often require extracting complex relations across large text spans .
Approach: They propose to decompose document-level relation extraction into relation detection and argument resolution, taking inspiration from Davidsonian semantics.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art methods in biomedical machine reading for precision oncology by 20 absolute F1 points.

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