This workshop will focus on exploring the utility of interactive narratives to fill a role as the learning environments of choice for language-based tasks including but not limited to storytelling. A previous iteration of this workshop took place very successfully with over a hundred attendees, also at NeurIPS, in 2018 and since then the community of people working in this area has rapidly increased. This workshop aims to be a centralized place where all researchers involved across a breadth of fields can interact and learn from each other. Furthermore, it will act as a showcase to the wider NLP/RL/Game communities on interactive narrative's place as a learning environment. The program will feature a collection of invited talks in addition to contributed talks and posters from each of these sections of the interactive narrative community and the wider NLP and RL communities.
| Opening Remarks (Live intro) | |
| Invited Talk - From Ground Truth to Grounded Truth - Dafna Shahaf (Prerecorded talk) | |
| Live QA - Dafna Shahaf (Live) | |
| Contributed talk - Process-Level Representation of Scientific Protocols with a Text-Based Game Annotation Interface - Ronen Tamari (Prerecorded talk) | |
| Parallel Poster Session 1 (Break) | |
| Speaker intro - Angela Fan (Live) | |
| Invited talk - LIGHT: Language in Games with Humans and Text - Angela Fan (Prerecorded talk) | |
| Live QA - Angela Fan (Live) | |
| Contributed talk - The Game Engineer's Challenge: Generalizing and Grounding Language Abstractly and Concretely - Catherine Wong (Prerecorded talk) | |
| Lunch Break (Break) | |
| Speaker intro - Karthik Narasimhan (Live) | |
| Invited talk - Bringing Back Text Understanding into Text-based Games - Karthik Narasimhan (Prerecorded talk) | |
| Live QA - Karthik Narasimhan (Live) | |
| Contributed talk - Towards Emotion-Aware Storytelling Using Reinforcement Learning - Faeze Brahman (Prerecorded talk) | |
| Speaker Intro - Nanyun Peng (Live) | |
| Invited talk - Creative Language Generation: Stories, Sarcasms, and Similes - Nanyun Peng (Prerecorded talk) | |
| Live QA - Nanyun Peng (Live) | |
| Coffee Break 2 (Break) | |
| Speaker Intro - Nick Walton (Live) | |
| Invited talk - AI powered games that enable unlimited creativity in infinite worlds - Nick Walton (Prerecorded Talk) | |
| Live QA - Nick Walton (Live) | |
| Contributed talk - Playing Text-Based Games with Common Sense - Sahith Dambekodi (Prerecorded Talk) | |
| Parallel Poster Session 2 (Parallel Poster) | |