RecipeNLG: A Cooking Recipes Dataset for Semi-Structured Text Generation

Semi-structured text generation is a non-trivial problem. Although last years have brought lots of improvements in natural language generation, thanks to the development of neural models trained on large scale datasets, these approaches still struggle with producing structured, context- and commonsense-aware texts. Moreover, it is not clear how to evaluate the quality of generated texts. To address these problems, we introduce RecipeNLG {–} a novel dataset of cooking recipes. We discuss the data collection process and the relation between the semi-structured texts and cooking recipes. We use the dataset to approach the problem of generating recipes. Finally, we make use of multiple metrics to evaluate the generated recipes.

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@inproceedings{bien-etal-2020-recipenlg,
    title = "{R}ecipe{NLG}: A Cooking Recipes Dataset for Semi-Structured Text Generation",
    author = "Bie{\'n}, Micha{\l}  and
      Gilski, Micha{\l}  and
      Maciejewska, Martyna  and
      Taisner, Wojciech  and
      Wisniewski, Dawid  and
      Lawrynowicz, Agnieszka",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Natural Language Generation",
    month = dec,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Dublin, Ireland",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.inlg-1.4",
    pages = "22--28"
}