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| Challenge: | Using crowdsourcing, we show that contextual relevance is necessary for accurate post-modifier generation. |
| Approach: | They introduce entity post-modifier generation as an instance of a collaborative writing task . they build a post- modifier dataset from news articles that provides contextually relevant information about the target entity. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system can generate a post-modifier phrase that provides contextually relevant information about the target entity. |
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