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What does it take to bake a cake? The RecipeRef corpus and anaphora resolution in procedural text
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Biaoyan Fang, University of Melbourne
  • Timothy Baldwin, University of Melbourne & Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
  • Karin Verspoor, University of Melbourne
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Abstract

Procedural text contains rich anaphoric phenomena, yet has not received much attention in NLP. To fill this gap, we investigate the textual properties of two types of procedural text, recipes and chemical patents, and generalize an anaphora annotation framework developed for the chemical domain for modeling anaphoric phenomena in recipes. We apply this framework to annotate the RecipeRef corpus with both bridging and coreference relations. Through comparison to chemical patents, we show the complexity of anaphora resolution in recipes. We demonstrate empirically that transfer learning from the chemical domain improves resolution of anaphora in recipes, suggesting transferability of general procedural knowledge.

DOI
10.18653/v1/2022.findings-acl.275
Publication Date
5-22-2022
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B. Fang, T. Baldwin, and K. Verspoor, “What does it take to bake a cake? the RECIPEREF corpus and Anaphora resolution in procedural text,” Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022, 2022. doi:10.18653/v1/2022.findings-acl.275