| Challenge: | Existing systems consider a small set of coarse types, but fine-grained Entity Typing can be used for a variety of tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a zero-shot entity typing approach that utilizes the type description available from Wikipedia to build a distributed semantic representation of the types. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method is able to recognize novel types without additional training on a public benchmark dataset. |
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