Challenge: Existing methods to relation extraction require labeled data, but labeling is difficult . Existing models cannot recognize rare instances that are never covered by training data .
Approach: They propose a multi-task learning model that directly predicts unseen relations without hand-crafted attribute labeling and multiple pairwise classifications.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms existing methods by 13.54% on two well-known datasets.

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