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Research for practice: knowledge base construction in the machine-learning era

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Three critical design points: Joint learning, weak supervision, and new representations.

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        Communications of the ACM  Volume 61, Issue 11
        November 2018
        156 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/3289258
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