Extracting procedures from text

  • Authors:
  • Engin Cinar Sahin

  • Affiliations:
  • Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Knowledge capture
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We present our progress on a fully automated system that extracts procedures from text. The system extracts a structured, plan-like graph that represents the procedure described in the text it was given. We hope such a system can be used to populate knowledge bases with real-world procedures that will fuel procedure representation and reasoning research geared towards everyday applications. The results obtained on the training data indicate that the task, and the method presented are feasible and should be investigated further.