Title
Playing by the Book: Towards Agent-based Narrative Understanding through Role-playing and Simulation.
Abstract
Understanding procedural text requires tracking entities, actions and effects as the narrative unfolds (often implicitly). We focus on the challenging real-world problem of structured narrative extraction in the materials science domain, where language is highly specialized and suitable annotated data is not publicly available. We propose an approach, Text2Quest, where procedural text is interpreted as instructions for an interactive game. A reinforcement-learning agent completes the game by understanding and executing the procedure correctly, in a text-based simulated lab environment. The framework is intended to be more broadly applicable to other domain-specific and data-scarce settings. We conclude with a discussion of challenges and interesting potential extensions enabled by the agent-based perspective.
Year
Venue
DocType
2018
arXiv: Learning
Journal
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
abs/1811.04319
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ronen Tamari1144.43
Hiroyuki Shindo27513.80
Dafna Shahaf334222.72
Yuji Matsumoto42712.98