Challenge: Existing approaches focus on dependencies among words while paying limited attention to other types of syntactic structure.
Approach: They propose an alternative approach that takes advantage of combinatory categorial grammar to detect the relation between entities.
Outcome: The proposed model performs state-of-the-art on two widely used English benchmark datasets.

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