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 | English |
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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 | |
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 |
Publication series
Name | International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings |
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Conference
Conference | 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2021 |
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Country/Territory | Australia |
City | Virtual, Online |
Period | 1/11/21 → 5/11/21 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- cooking recipes
- multi-document summarization
- procedural texts
- sensemaking