RecipeNLG

Learning and science

recipe dataset and generator

SHOW HN2020

189points
60comments
#299of 3,028 in 2020
Top 10%of 2020 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

7 positive, 15 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 7 critical, out of 30 comments about the project. Thread score -0.04.

Execution: 3 for, 3 againstIdea: 3 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Dataset and models released openly

    From 1 comment
    • Thanks for sharing not only the paper but the data used and also the models. We need more cases like this
      kuu on HN
  • Fun generated recipes and Douglas Adams reference

    From 1 comment
    • I just got a fabulous recipe from the uncanny valley of cooking. Almost viable, with just a few mistakes that would have made it both impossible to follow and, if followed as…
      gearhart on HN

Objections

  • Demo generation takes minutes due to no GPU budget

    From 2 comments
    • Perfectly understood! We just cannot afford to run it on GPU in the backend so the generation takes up to 3 minutes which is terrible thing to do interactively :( You're invited…
      mbien on HN
    • It does take a long while though (I have been waiting for... I didn't pay attention but more than 15 minutes) so I can understand how using email would be the easiest solution…
      seszett on HN
  • Demo asks for email address

    From 1 comment
    • https://recipenlg.cs.put.poznan.pl/generator linked in the Github page was looking good until > Second step is to fill Additional information. First of them - an email address. >…
      zhte415 on HN
  • Generated recipes are often unusable or odd

    From 3 comments
    • Spicy Tomato Sauce Inputs tomato olive oil garlic salt sugar pepper Ingredients 1 (10 ounce) can crushed tomato 1 tablespoon olive oil 2 garlic cloves 1/2 teaspoon salt (to…
      4rt on HN
    • I tried ingredients for my current obsession: sauerkraut, just cabbage and salt. Naturally it did not reinvent sauerkraut. How many of those 2M recipes included a fermented…
      lapetitejort on HN
    • Attempted to max out the ingredient list, and got a recipe that would probably feed 20 people[0]. Most impressive thing in my mind is it did correctly figure out it is a soup.…
      alexggordon on HN
  • Copyright status of scraped recipes unclear

    From 2 comments
    • I can't find any details on the license or copyright status of these recipes. It looks like a scraper was used (Scrapy). The only note I could find in the paper just says: >…
      pimlottc on HN
    • Ingredients lists are not copyrightable. The text and photos around them can be (as in a recipe book or blog). “A mere listing of ingredients is not protected under copyright…
      s1mon on HN

Requests

  • Better documentation and examples for the model and dataset

    From 3 comments
    • FWIW, I'm no fan of giving my email either, so I tried to load the transformer on my own system. Would you mind to put a bit more, eg an example, than just following three lines…
      desmap on HN
    • "The dataset we publish contains 2231142 cooking recipes (>2 millions)" Where are the actual recipes? Sorry if I missed it, but I've been opening folders and couldn't find a huge…
      franciscop on HN
    • I’m always surprised these datasets never have an example datum listed. It’s just click here to download all of it then see.
      6gvONxR4sf7o on HN
  • Metric units support

    From 1 comment
    • I got a recipe. My country is, as most countries are, metric. The recipe is in cups and pinches. It is software, so it is not difficult to add a question to the start of the…
      Shorel on HN

Questions

  • Is it legal to republish scraped recipes

    From 2 comments
    • I can't find any details on the license or copyright status of these recipes. It looks like a scraper was used (Scrapy). The only note I could find in the paper just says: >…
      pimlottc on HN
    • I’ve always wondered about this. Say you get the recipe and translate it using ML to another language but with fuzzy logic so it’s not identical to the original. And has added or…
      martimarkov on HN
  • Where is the dataset file

    From 1 comment
    • "The dataset we publish contains 2231142 cooking recipes (>2 millions)" Where are the actual recipes? Sorry if I missed it, but I've been opening folders and couldn't find a huge…
      franciscop on HN

Alternatives named

  • IBM Chef Watson

    From 2 comments
    • IBM Chef Watson was quite good at it though, already five years ago. But I haven't found any similar service since it was turned off, what makes it so hard to replicate it?
      seszett on HN
    • yes, we got quite a long queue :D
      mbien on HN
  • GPT-2 and GPT-3 recipe generation

    From 1 comment
    • This is great! I cooked recipes generated by GPT-2 for Thanksgiving dinner this year and it was surprising how a recipe can look good on paper but then come out in a completely…
      vitiell0 on HN

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