Continual Contrastive Finetuning Improves Low-Resource Relation Extraction (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Relation extraction (RE) has been challenging in low-resource domains and with limited resources. |
| Approach: | They propose to pretrain and finetune the RE model using consistent objectives of contrastive learning. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms PLM-based RE classifier on two document-level RE datasets. |
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