Challenge: Distant supervision can effectively label data for relation extraction, but suffers from the noise labeling problem.
Approach: They propose a sentence-level true-positive generator to learn a true-negative generator from a fuzzy sentence bag.
Outcome: The proposed method significantly improves the performance of distant supervision relation extraction compared to state-of-the-art systems.

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Challenge: Existing methods for relation extraction use bag labels, which introduce noise, to train the model.
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