| Challenge: | Existing methods for event detection classify words or phrases into specific types of interest. |
| Approach: | They propose a new event detection formulation that describes types via keywords to match contexts in documents. |
| Outcome: | The proposed formulation improves the performance of the proposed model to new types. |
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