Workshop
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
Sat 12 Dec, 6 a.m. PST
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.
Schedule
Sat 6:00 a.m. - 6:10 a.m.
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Opening Remarks
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Sat 6:10 a.m. - 6:50 a.m.
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Invited Talk - From Ground Truth to Grounded Truth - Dafna Shahaf
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Prerecorded talk
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Dafna Shahaf 🔗 |
Sat 6:50 a.m. - 7:00 a.m.
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Live QA - Dafna Shahaf
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Sat 7:00 a.m. - 7:20 a.m.
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Contributed talk - Process-Level Representation of Scientific Protocols with a Text-Based Game Annotation Interface - Ronen Tamari
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Prerecorded talk
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Sat 7:20 a.m. - 8:05 a.m.
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Parallel Poster Session 1 link | 🔗 |
Sat 8:07 a.m. - 8:09 a.m.
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Speaker intro - Angela Fan
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Sat 8:09 a.m. - 8:32 a.m.
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Invited talk - LIGHT: Language in Games with Humans and Text - Angela Fan
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Prerecorded talk
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Angela Fan 🔗 |
Sat 8:32 a.m. - 8:40 a.m.
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Live QA - Angela Fan
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Sat 8:40 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
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Contributed talk - The Game Engineer's Challenge: Generalizing and Grounding Language Abstractly and Concretely - Catherine Wong
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Prerecorded talk
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Catherine Wong 🔗 |
Sat 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
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Lunch Break
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Sat 10:00 a.m. - 10:02 a.m.
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Speaker intro - Karthik Narasimhan
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Sat 10:02 a.m. - 10:47 a.m.
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Invited talk - Bringing Back Text Understanding into Text-based Games - Karthik Narasimhan
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Prerecorded talk
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Karthik Narasimhan 🔗 |
Sat 10:47 a.m. - 10:55 a.m.
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Live QA - Karthik Narasimhan
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Sat 10:55 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
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Contributed talk - Towards Emotion-Aware Storytelling Using Reinforcement Learning - Faeze Brahman
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Prerecorded talk
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SlidesLive Video |
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Sat 11:15 a.m. - 11:17 a.m.
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Speaker Intro - Nanyun Peng
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Sat 11:17 a.m. - 12:02 p.m.
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Invited talk - Creative Language Generation: Stories, Sarcasms, and Similes - Nanyun Peng
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Prerecorded talk
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SlidesLive Video |
Nanyun Peng 🔗 |
Sat 12:02 p.m. - 12:10 p.m.
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Live QA - Nanyun Peng
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Sat 12:10 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.
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Coffee Break 2
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Sat 12:30 p.m. - 12:32 p.m.
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Speaker Intro - Nick Walton
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Sat 12:32 p.m. - 1:17 p.m.
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Invited talk - AI powered games that enable unlimited creativity in infinite worlds - Nick Walton
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Prerecorded Talk
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SlidesLive Video |
Nick Walton 🔗 |
Sat 1:17 p.m. - 1:25 p.m.
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Live QA - Nick Walton
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Sat 1:25 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
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Contributed talk - Playing Text-Based Games with Common Sense - Sahith Dambekodi
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Sahith Dambekodi 🔗 |
Sat 1:45 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
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Parallel Poster Session 2 ( Parallel Poster ) > link | 🔗 |