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What does it take to bake a cake? The RecipeRef corpus and anaphora resolution in procedural text
B Fang, T Baldwin, K Verspoor
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics | ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL | Published : 2022
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 p..
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Awarded by Australian Research Council Linkage Project
Awarded by Australian Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
This work was done in the framework of the ChEMU project, supported by Australian Research Council Linkage Project project number LP160101469 and Elsevier. A graduate research scholarship was provided by the University of Melbourne Faculty of Engineering and IT to Biaoyan Fang. We would also like to thank Dr. Christian Druckenbrodt, Dr. Saber A. Akhondi, and Dr. Camilo Thorne from Elsevier, as well as our two expert recipe annotators Kate Baldwin and Ayah Tayeh, for their contributions in refining the annotation guidelines.