Want world domination? win at risk!: matching to-do items with how-tos from the web

  • Authors:
  • Denny Vrandečić;Yolanda Gil;Varun Ratnakar

  • Affiliations:
  • KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany;University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA;University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

To-Do lists are widely used for personal task management. We propose a novel approach to assist users in managing their To-Dos by matching them to How-To knowledge from the Web. We have implemented a system that, given a To-Do item, provides a number of possibly matching How-Tos, broken down into steps that can be used as new To-Do entries. Our implementation is in the form of a web service that can be easily integrated into existing To-Do applications. This can help users by providing them with an approach to tackle the To-Do by listing smaller, more actionable To-Dos. In this paper we present our implementation, an evaluation of the matching component over two sets of To-Do corpora with very different characteristics, and a discussion of the results.