TRUE-UIE: Two Universal Relations Unify Information Extraction Tasks (2024.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Information extraction (IE) tasks have a variety of schemas and objectives that differ across tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a paradigm where all IE tasks are aligned to learn the same goals . they use two universal relations to extract mention spans and type recognition . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art on established benchmarks spanning 16 datasets, spanning 7 diverse IE tasks. |
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