Extraction of Cooking Tips from a Recipe and Application to Another Recipe

Abstract

There have been posted recipes to user-submitted recipe site, such as "Cookpad" or "Rakuten Recipe" and we can use them freely. Some recipes have tips of cooking and these are useful for better cooking. For example, it is written that if you sprinkle flour on meat, you can make it soft. However, tips of cooking are not always written on all recipes. We propose a method to extract tips of cooking from a recipe and apply them to another recipe. One recipe consists of in ingredients information and procedure of cooking. Tips of cooking is sometimes described in a part of procedure of cooking. We prepare several patterns to extract tips of cooking. In the evaluation of extracted tips of cooking, the accuracy was 79.4% in average. The result of apply tips of cooking to other recipes was 69.7% accuracy in average.