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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