Work

Collaborative Dialogue in Minecraft

Year: 2019

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: We wish to develop interactive agents that can communicate with humans to collaboratively solve tasks in grounded scenarios.Since computer games allow us to simulate such tasks without the need for physical robots, we define a Minecraft-based collaborative building task in which one player (A, the Architect) is shown a target structure and needs to instruct the other player (B, the Builder) to build this structure.Both players interact via a chat interface.A can observe B but cannot place blocks.We present the Minecraft Dialogue Corpus, a collection of 509 conversations and game logs.As a first step towards our goal of developing fully interactive agents for this task, we consider the subtask of Architect utterance generation, and show how challenging it is.

Source: Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

DOI: 10.18653/v1/p19-1537

Authors: Anjali Narayan-Chen, Prashant Jayannavar, Julia Hockenmaier

Institution: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Language: English

Topic: Speech and dialogue systems

Subfield: Artificial Intelligence

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Advanced Research Projects Agency, Army Research Office

Awards: G5385673730, G7452299184