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Goal-Oriented Script Construction

arXiv 2107.13189 ↗First posted 28 Jul 2021cs.CLcited by 30

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Abstract (arXiv)

The knowledge of scripts, common chains of events in stereotypical scenarios, is a valuable asset for task-oriented natural language understanding systems. We propose the Goal-Oriented Script Construction task, where a model produces a sequence of steps to accomplish a given goal. We pilot our task on the first multilingual script learning dataset supporting 18 languages collected from wikiHow, a website containing half a million how-to articles. For baselines, we consider both a generation-based approach using a language model and a retrieval-based approach by first retrieving the relevant steps from a large candidate pool and then ordering them. We show that our task is practical, feasible but challenging for state-of-the-art Transformer models, and that our methods can be readily deployed for various other datasets and domains with decent zero-shot performance.

Key facts. Cited by 30 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Builds on 16 of its 50 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 28 Jul 2021.

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  2. 2019BERTScore: Evaluating Text Generation with BERTcited by 5,462
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  1. 2019Learning Household Task Knowledge from WikiHow Descriptionscited by 15
  2. 2016Using Sentence-Level LSTM Language Models for Script Inferencecited by 10
  3. 2017Sequence to Sequence Learning for Event Predictioncited by 9
  4. 2017Aligning Script Events with Narrative Textscited by 2

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  1. 2023Distilling Script Knowledge from Large Language Models for Constrained Language Planningcited by 45
  2. 2022Neuro-Symbolic Procedural Planning with Commonsense Promptingcited by 28
  3. 2025Toward Generalizable Evaluation in the LLM Era: A Survey Beyond Benchmarkscited by 26
  4. 2023Causal Reasoning of Entities and Events in Procedural Textscited by 23
  5. 2022Show Me More Details: Discovering Hierarchies of Procedures from Semi-structured Web Datacited by 22
  6. 2021What do Large Language Models Learn about Scripts?cited by 19
  7. 2024On the Limit of Language Models as Planning Formalizerscited by 17
  8. 2021Salience-Aware Event Chain Modeling for Narrative Understandingcited by 14
  9. 2024PDDLEGO: Iterative Planning in Textual Environmentscited by 14
  10. 2021Induce, Edit, Retrieve: Language Grounded Multimodal Schema for Instructional Video Retrievalcited by 13
  11. 2025NarraBench: A Comprehensive Framework for Narrative Benchmarkingcited by 13
  12. 2022Multimedia Generative Script Learning for Task Planningcited by 12
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  1. 2022SubeventWriter: Iterative Sub-event Sequence Generation with Coherence Controllercited by 10
  2. 2024CaT-BENCH: Benchmarking Language Model Understanding of Causal and Temporal Dependencies in Planscited by 10
  3. 2022Reasoning about Procedures with Natural Language Processing: A Tutorialcited by 8
  4. 2023OpenPI2.0: An Improved Dataset for Entity Tracking in Textscited by 8
  5. 2023Take a Break in the Middle: Investigating Subgoals towards Hierarchical Script Generationcited by 7
  6. 2023Unsupervised Task Graph Generation from Instructional Video Transcriptscited by 6
  7. 2023Rewriting the Script: Adapting Text Instructions for Voice Interactioncited by 5
  8. 2023Tailoring with Targeted Precision: Edit-Based Agents for Open-Domain Procedure Customizationcited by 5
  9. 2023Non-Sequential Graph Script Induction via Multimedia Groundingcited by 4
  10. 2024WorldAPIs: The World Is Worth How Many APIs? A Thought Experimentcited by 4
  11. 2024PAGED: A Benchmark for Procedural Graphs Extraction from Documentscited by 4
  12. 2022Incorporating Task-specific Concept Knowledge into Script Learningcited by 3
  13. 2023Choice-75: A Dataset on Decision Branching in Script Learningcited by 2
  14. 2023MULTISCRIPT: Multimodal Script Learning for Supporting Open Domain Everyday Taskscited by 2
  15. 2024SAGA: A Participant-specific Examination of Story Alternatives and Goal Applicability for a Deeper Understanding of Complex Eventscited by 2
  16. 2025Iterative Formalization and Planning in Partially Observable Environmentscited by 1
  17. 2025ScEdit: Script-based Assessment of Knowledge Editingcited by 1
  18. 2026The Imperfective Paradox in Large Language Modelscited by 1