A Relation-Oriented Clustering Method for Open Relation Extraction (2021.emnlp-main)
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| 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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