HowToKB

HowToKB is the first large-scale knowledge base which represents how-to (task) knowledge. Each task is represented by a frame with attributes for parent task, preceding sub-task, following sub-task, required tools or other items, and linkage to visual illustrations. 

Approach

Our methodology first applies Open-IE techniques to WikiHow articles, in order to extract - noisy and ambiguous - candidates for task and sub-tasks. Subsequently, we use judiciously devised clustering techniques to clean and organize these candidates, and to infer attribute values. To canonicalize tasks and sub-tasks, we leverage word embeddings to distinguish different meanings of the same phrase (e.g., "use keyboard").

You can check the simple GUI of the HowToKB here

Data

HowToKB data can be downloaded here

Code

HowToKB source code can be downloaded here

• Distilling Task Knowledge from How-to Communities
  Cuong Xuan Chu, Niket Tandon, Gerhard Weikum
  Accepted: Proc. WWW 2017 [pdf]