Challenge: Existing methods for relation triplet extraction rely on labeled data and are limited in their applicability.
Approach: They propose a two-agent game approach to deliberate and debate unseen relations by two agents, a generator and an extractor.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms baseline methods by 6%-16% in F1 scores.

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