5 papers
Show Me More Details: Discovering Hierarchies of Procedures from Semi-structured Web Data
Shuyan Zhou, Li Zhang, Yue Yang +4
Procedures are inherently hierarchical. To "make videos", one may need to "purchase a camera", which in turn may require one to "set a budget". While such hierarchical knowledge is…
Goal-Oriented Script Construction
Qing Lyu, Li Zhang, Chris Callison-Burch
The knowledge of scripts, common chains of events in stereotypical scenarios, is a valuable asset for task-oriented natural language understanding systems. We propose the Goal-Orie…
Visual Goal-Step Inference using wikiHow
Yue Yang, Artemis Panagopoulou, Qing Lyu +3
Understanding what sequence of steps are needed to complete a goal can help artificial intelligence systems reason about human activities. Past work in NLP has examined the task of…
Reasoning about Goals, Steps, and Temporal Ordering with WikiHow
Li Zhang, Qing Lyu, Chris Callison-Burch
We propose a suite of reasoning tasks on two types of relations between procedural events: goal-step relations ("learn poses" is a step in the larger goal of "doing yoga") and step…
Intent Detection with WikiHow
Li Zhang, Qing Lyu, Chris Callison-Burch
Modern task-oriented dialog systems need to reliably understand users' intents. Intent detection is most challenging when moving to new domains or new languages, since there is lit…