Learning distributed representations for relation instances is a central technique in downstream applications as a number of recent studies demonstrated the usefulness of distributed representations for words (Mikolov et al., 2013;Pennington et al., 2014) and sentences (Sutskever et al., 2014;Kiros et al., 2015).
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