Cooking with Semantics
Jonathan Malmaud, Earl J. Wagner, Nancy Chang, Kevin P. Murphy · 2014
We are interested in the automatic inter-pretation of how-to instructions, such as cooking recipes, into semantic representa-tions that can facilitate sophisticated ques-tion answering. Recent work has shown impressive results on semantic parsing of instructions with minimal supervision, but such techniques cannot handle much of the situated and ambiguous language used in instructions found on the web. In this pa-per, we suggest how to extend such meth-ods using a model of pragmatics, based on a rich representation of world state. 1