Fine-Grained and Complex Food Entity Recognition Benchmark for Ingredient Substitution

Agnieszka Lawrynowicz, Anna Wróblewska, Agnieszka Kaliska, Maciej Pawlowski, Dawid Wisniewski, Witold Sosnowski, Jakub Dutkiewicz

Abstract: Food computing is currently fast-growing into an innovative area of knowledge extraction. However, benchmarks for information extraction from semi-structured data, especially when dealing with more complex relations, are scarce in this domain. In this paper, we introduce a benchmark aimed at information extraction of complex entities to support ingredient substitution tasks. Firstly, we present a new dataset – called TASTEset – for fine-grained recognition of food entities in culinary recipes. Secondly, we provide complex entity annotations for substitution on top of the fine-grained entity mentions, which we carefully prepared. We share the dataset and the tasks to encourage progress on more in-depth and complex information extraction from recipes.