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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…
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…