A task in which two or more individual steps (which are tasks in and of themselves) need to be completed.

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1. Task
2. Complex Task
3. Subtask
4. Temporal Dependencies

Terms Related to Modeling Tasks

Zhang, Y., Jauhar, S. K., Kiseleva, J., White, R., &amp; Roth, D. (2021). Learning to Decompose and Organize Complex Tasks. ACL Anthology. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2021.naacl-main.217/. 

Learning to Decompose and Organize Complex Tasks

A text fragment that represents a goal people want to track, something they want to remind themselves of, or learn how to do. Tasks must include a verb in order to reduce ambiguity.

Task Definition for Modeling Tasks

Complex Task Definition for Modeling Tasks

Subtask Definition for Modeling Tasks

Temporal dependencies: Completion of a subtask may depend on the completion of other subtasks. 

Notation: subtask B depends on ( <-- ) subtask A

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