| Challenge: | Existing approaches to entity typing have limited flexibility to transfer across text genres and generalize to new type taxonomies. |
| Approach: | They propose a zero-shot entity typing approach that requires no annotated data and can flexibly identify newly defined types. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system outperforms state-of-the-art supervised NER systems on a broad range of datasets and on 'biological domain' it is competitive with supervised systems and outperformed on out-of training datasets. |
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