ReciPic: A Tool for Generating Infographic from Recipe Procedure Text
Lechang Zhang, Takayuki Itoh · 2023
Food is one of the basic human needs and an important part of human culture. With the development of Internet, it has become increasingly common for people to share recipes on recipe websites. However, in most cases, these recipes contain only text information about the cooking procedures. It is difficult for users to have a big picture about the food materials and cooking methods at a glance. In this paper, we propose a tool for generating infographic from recipe procedure text, to supplement the pure text information on the recipe websites. This tool accepts one step text of the cooking procedures, and then segments the text stream into appropriate units. After that, it extracts the food material, cooking tool, cooking action segmentation and label them with F, T, Ac (F: Food material, T: Cooking tool, Ac: Cooking action) respectively. Then, it analyzes the grammatical relationship between the extracted words. Finally, it matches the words with prepared pictures and place them with appropriate positions in an infographic and represents it to users.