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Workshop
Sat Dec 12 06:00 AM -- 03:00 PM (PST)
Wordplay: When Language Meets Games
Prithviraj Ammanabrolu · Matthew Hausknecht · Xingdi Yuan · Marc-Alexandre Côté · Adam Trischler · Kory Mathewson @korymath · John Urbanek · Jason Weston · Mark Riedl





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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)