Challenge: Empirical results show that even the most competitive few-shot learning models struggle on this task, especially as compared with humans.
Approach: They propose a Few-Shot Relation Classification Dataset consisting of 70, 000 sentences on 100 relations derived from Wikipedia and annotated by crowdworkers.
Outcome: The proposed methods perform well on the most competitive few-shot learning models, especially as compared with humans.

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