| Challenge: | Zero-Shot Relation Extraction (ZRE) is a task where the training and test sets have no shared relation types. |
| Approach: | They propose to learn a model that can translate relation descriptions into relevant questions, which are then leveraged to generate the correct tail entity. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art on the fewrel and WikiZSL datasets by more than 16 F1 points without using gold question templates. |
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