| Challenge: | Existing studies have focused on re-modeling the given NEs and thus lead to inferior results when NE is sometimes ambiguous. |
| Approach: | They propose a relation extraction model with two training stages that uses adversarial multi-task learning to recover the given NEs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves on two English benchmark datasets and shows state-of-the-art performance. |
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