Challenge: Document-level relation extraction (DocRE) models achieve consistent performance gains in DocRE, but their underlying decision rules are still understudied.
Approach: They propose to use annotations to provide rationales for document-level relation extraction (DocRE) they then propose to apply a method to evaluate models' reasoning capabilities .
Outcome: The proposed models exhibit different reasoning processes in contrast to humans . the proposed models render models more trustworthy and robust to be deployed in real-world scenarios.

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