Challenge: Existing work on event relation extraction focuses on modeling the entire document . existing methods cannot handle long-range dependencies and information redundancy .
Approach: They propose a compression-then-extraction paradigm for event relation extraction . they propose document clustering for modeling event dependencies and then a cluster summarization method .
Outcome: The proposed method simplifies and highlights important text content of clusters for mitigating redundancy and event distance.

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