What does it take to bake a cake? The RecipeRef corpus and anaphora resolution in procedural text (2022.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Current research on anaphora resolution is mostly based on declarative text, such as chemical patents or instruction manuals. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for anaphora annotation for the chemical domain for modeling anamorphic phenomena in recipes and chemical patents. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves resolution of anaphora in recipes, suggesting transferability of general procedural knowledge. |
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