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WISE 2015: Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2015 pp 522–538Cite as

Similarity Search over Personal Process Description Graph

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Abstract

People are involved in various processes in their daily lives, such as cooking a dish, applying for a job or opening a bank account. With the advent of easy-to-use Web-based sharing platforms, many of these processes are shared as step-by-step instructions (e.g., “how-to guides” in eHow and wikiHow) on-line in natural language form. We refer to them as personal process descriptions. In our early work, we proposed a graph-based model named Personal Process Description Graph (PPDG) to concretely represent and query the personal process descriptions. However, in practice, it is difficult to find identical personal processes or fragments for a given query due to the free-text nature of personal process descriptions. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an idea of similarity search over the “how-to guides” based on PPDG. We introduce the concept of “similar personal processes” which defines the similarity between two PPDGs by utilizing the features of both PPDG nodes and structure. Efficient and effective algorithms to process similarity search over PPDGs are developed with novel pruning techniques following a filtering-refinement framework. We present a comprehensive experimental study over both real and synthetic datasets to demonstrate the efficiency and scalability of our techniques.

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Notes

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    http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/, Stanford NLP Group.

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    Throughout the paper, we sometimes refer to the directed edges to/from nodes as simply graph structure.

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    Note that the common auxiliary words, such as “a”, “for” and “of”, are not included.

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    http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsbpel/2.0/OS/wsbpel-v2.0-OS.html.

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  1. The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Jing Ouyang Hsu, Hye-young Paik & Liming Zhan

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  1. Tsinghua University, Bijing, China

    Jianyong Wang

  2. Poznan University of Economics, Poznan, Poland

    Wojciech Cellary

  3. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA

    Dingding Wang

  4. Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

    Hua Wang

  5. School of Computing & Information, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA

    Shu-Ching Chen

  6. Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA

    Tao Li

  7. Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Yanchun Zhang

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Hsu, J.O., Paik, Hy., Zhan, L. (2015). Similarity Search over Personal Process Description Graph. In: Wang, J., et al. Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2015. WISE 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9418. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26190-4_35

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