Task2KB: A Public Task-Oriented Knowledge Base
Procheta Sen, Xi Wang, Ruiqing Xu, Emine Yilmaz

TL;DR
Task2KB is a comprehensive, publicly available knowledge base derived from WikiHow, designed to improve task-oriented search and conversational systems by covering a wide range of everyday tasks with detailed attributes.
Contribution
The paper introduces Task2KB, a novel, extensive knowledge base constructed from WikiHow data, enhancing coverage for task completion applications.
Findings
Task2KB covers a broader range of tasks than existing knowledge bases.
It includes detailed attributes like requirements and methods for tasks.
Task2KB improves the development of general-purpose task completion assistants.
Abstract
Search engines and conversational assistants are commonly used to help users complete their every day tasks such as booking travel, cooking, etc. While there are some existing datasets that can be used for this purpose, their coverage is limited to very few domains. In this paper, we propose a novel knowledge base, 'Task2KB', which is constructed using data crawled from WikiHow, an online knowledge resource offering instructional articles on a wide range of tasks. Task2KB encapsulates various types of task-related information and attributes, such as requirements, detailed step description, and available methods to complete tasks. Due to its higher coverage compared to existing related knowledge graphs, Task2KB can be highly useful in the development of general purpose task completion assistants
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Taxonomy
TopicsAI in Service Interactions · Recommender Systems and Techniques · Topic Modeling
