Workshop: Wordplay: When Language Meets Games
Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Matthew Hausknecht, Eric Yuan, Marc-Alexandre Côté, Adam Trischler, Kory Mathewson, John Urbanek, Jason Weston, Mark Riedl
Sat, Dec 12th, 2020 @ 14:00 – 23:00 GMT
Abstract: 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.
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Schedule
14:00 – 14:10 GMT
Opening Remarks
14:10 – 14:50 GMT
Invited Talk - From Ground Truth to Grounded Truth - Dafna Shahaf
Dafna Shahaf
14:50 – 15:00 GMT
Live QA - Dafna Shahaf
15:00 – 15:20 GMT
Contributed talk - Process-Level Representation of Scientific Protocols with a Text-Based Game Annotation Interface - Ronen Tamari
Ronen Tamari
16:07 – 16:09 GMT
Speaker intro - Angela Fan
16:09 – 16:32 GMT
Invited talk - LIGHT: Language in Games with Humans and Text - Angela Fan
Angela Fan
16:32 – 16:40 GMT
Live QA - Angela Fan
16:40 – 17:00 GMT
Contributed talk - The Game Engineer's Challenge: Generalizing and Grounding Language Abstractly and Concretely - Catherine Wong
Catherine Wong
17:00 – 18:00 GMT
Lunch Break
18:00 – 18:02 GMT
Speaker intro - Karthik Narasimhan
18:02 – 18:47 GMT
Invited talk - Bringing Back Text Understanding into Text-based Games - Karthik Narasimhan
Karthik Narasimhan
18:47 – 18:55 GMT
Live QA - Karthik Narasimhan
18:55 – 19:15 GMT
Contributed talk - Towards Emotion-Aware Storytelling Using Reinforcement Learning - Faeze Brahman
Faeze Brahman
19:15 – 19:17 GMT
Speaker Intro - Nanyun Peng
19:17 – 20:02 GMT
Invited talk - Creative Language Generation: Stories, Sarcasms, and Similes - Nanyun Peng
Violet Peng
20:02 – 20:10 GMT
Live QA - Nanyun Peng
20:10 – 20:30 GMT
Coffee Break 2
20:30 – 20:32 GMT
Speaker Intro - Nick Walton
20:32 – 21:17 GMT
Invited talk - AI powered games that enable unlimited creativity in infinite worlds - Nick Walton
Nick Walton
21:17 – 21:25 GMT
Live QA - Nick Walton
21:25 – 21:45 GMT
Contributed talk - Playing Text-Based Games with Common Sense - Sahith Dambekodi
Sahith Dambekodi