Learning object/action pairs for recipe ingredients

A system, comprising:

• a memory having computer readable instructions;
• and
• a processor for executing the computer readable instructions, the computer readable instructions including:
• receiving an ingredient list of a recipe stored in an electronic format in a corpus of recipes, the ingredient list including a plurality of entries, each of the entries comprising one or more words;
• for each multi-word entry in the ingredient list:
• identifying an ingredient associated with the entry, the identifying including comparing words contained in the entry to terms in a lexicon of cooking domain terms;
• determining whether an action corresponds to the identified ingredient, the determining including parsing the entry to locate a verb that is associated with the identified ingredient;
• and
• based on determining that an action corresponds to the identified ingredient, outputting a food item action pair that includes the identified ingredient and the located verb, wherein the located verb indicates that the action is performed on the identified ingredient and wherein the outputting is to a database;
• outputting at least one additional food item action pair for at least one of the multi-word entries in the ingredient list;
• and
• executing a recipe generator to automatically create a description of a new recipe, not contained in the corpus of recipes, using cognitive computing, the description of the new recipe including one of the food item action pairs.

A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the computer processor to perform:

• receiving an ingredient list of a recipe stored in an electronic format, the ingredient list including a plurality of entries, each of the entries comprising one or more words;
• for each multi-word entry in the ingredient list:
• identifying an ingredient associated with the entry, the identifying including comparing words contained in the entry to terms in a lexicon of cooking domain terms;
• determining whether an action corresponds to the identified ingredient, the determining including parsing the entry to locate a verb that is associated with the identified ingredient;
• and
• based on determining that an action corresponds to the identified ingredient, outputting a food item action pair that includes the identified ingredient and the located verb, wherein the located verb indicates that the action is performed on the identified ingredient and wherein the outputting is to a database;
• outputting at least one additional food item action pair for at least one of the multi-word entries in the ingredient list;
• and
• executing a recipe generator to automatically create a description of a new recipe, not contained in the corpus of recipes, using cognitive computing, the description of the new recipe including one of the food item action pairs.