| Challenge: | a conceptually simple and effective method to quantify the similarity between relations is presented . identifying relations is a crucial problem for several information extraction tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to quantify the similarity between relations in knowledge bases . they use a neural network to parameterize conditional probability distributions over entity pairs . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method significantly correlates with human judgments, the authors show . it could be incorporated into negative sampling and softmax classification to alleviate these mistakes. |
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