Challenge: Existing approaches for information extraction (IE) are limited by the number of subtasks and the isolation of the subtask.
Approach: They propose a new paradigm for universal information extraction that is compatible with any schema format and applicable to a list of IE tasks.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms generative universal IE models on 14 benchmarks with the supervised setting and the state-of-the-art performance in low-resource scenarios.

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