Estimation of Unwritten Cooking Utensils in Recipe Texts

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to present a recipe suitable for the user’s cooking environment from various recipe candidates.Since recipes on user-contributed recipe sites are increasing yearly, it is not easy to find recipes suitable for his/her cooking environment such as cooking utensils and condiments that the user has. In particular, cooking utensils do not always described in the recipe texts. To solve the problem, a search system is desired that can retrieve cooking recipes by estimating omitted cooking utensils and condiments into account. As the first step of the system, this paper proposes a method to estimate omitted cooking utensils. This method uses foodstuffs and cooking behaviors appeared in the recipe texts as clues.As the result of applying this method, we confirmed that it is possible to infer the candidates for cooking utensil omitted in the recipe. This result shows the effectiveness of the proposed method.