Towards Modeling Revision Requirements in wikiHow Instructions

Irshad Bhat, Talita Anthonio, Michael Roth


Abstract
wikiHow is a resource of how-to guidesthat describe the steps necessary to accomplish a goal. Guides in this resource are regularly edited by a community of users, who try to improve instructions in terms of style, clarity and correctness. In this work, we test whether the need for such edits can be predicted automatically. For this task, we extend an existing resource of textual edits with a complementary set of approx. 4 million sentences that remain unedited over time and report on the outcome of two revision modeling experiments.
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2020.emnlp-main.675
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Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
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November
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2020
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Online
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Bonnie Webber, Trevor Cohn, Yulan He, Yang Liu
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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8407–8414
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.675
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.675
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Irshad Bhat, Talita Anthonio, and Michael Roth. 2020. Towards Modeling Revision Requirements in wikiHow Instructions. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 8407–8414, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Towards Modeling Revision Requirements in wikiHow Instructions (Bhat et al., EMNLP 2020)
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