50 Ways to Bake a Cookie: Mapping the Landscape of Procedural Texts

Moran Mizrahi; Dafna Shahaf

doi:10.1145/3459637.3482405

50 Ways to Bake a Cookie: Mapping the Landscape of Procedural Texts

Moran Mizrahi, Dafna Shahaf

The Rachel and Selim Benin School of Engineering and Computer Science

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Abstract

The web is full of guidance on a wide variety of tasks, from changing the oil in your car to baking an apple pie. However, as content is created independently, a single task could have thousands of corresponding procedural texts. This makes it difficult for users to view the bigger picture and understand the multiple ways the task could be accomplished. In this work we propose an unsupervised learning approach for summarizing multiple procedural texts into an intuitive graph representation, allowing users to easily explore commonalities and differences. We demonstrate our approach on recipes, a prominent example of procedural texts. User studies show that our representation is intuitive and coherent and that it has the potential to help users with several sensemaking tasks, including adapting recipes for a novice cook and finding creative ways to spice up a dish.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	CIKM 2021 - Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	1304-1314
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450384469
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3459637.3482405
State	Published - 26 Oct 2021
Event	30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2021 - Virtual, Online, Australia Duration: 1 Nov 2021 → 5 Nov 2021

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Name	International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

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Conference	30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2021
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Virtual, Online
Period	1/11/21 → 5/11/21

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Funding Information:
We thank the anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments, Hyadata Lab members for thoughtful remarks, and the participants in our user studies. This work was supported by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant no. 852686, SIAM).

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© 2021 ACM.

Keywords

cooking recipes
multi-document summarization
procedural texts
sensemaking

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Mizrahi, M., & Shahaf, D. (2021). 50 Ways to Bake a Cookie: Mapping the Landscape of Procedural Texts. In CIKM 2021 - Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (pp. 1304-1314). (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3459637.3482405

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50 Ways to Bake a Cookie: Mapping the Landscape of Procedural Texts. / Mizrahi, Moran; Shahaf, Dafna.
CIKM 2021 - Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021. p. 1304-1314 (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings).

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