Challenge: Existing methods for open relation extraction (OpenRE) are designed for predefined relations, which cannot deal with new emerging relations in the real world.
Approach: They propose a relation-oriented clustering model that leverages readily available labeled data to learn a relationship-oriented representation.
Outcome: The proposed model reduces error rate by 29.2% and 15.7% on two datasets compared with current SOTA methods.

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