CFP
WP2018: Wordplay: Reinforcement and Language Learning in Text-based Games NIPS 2018 Montreal, Canada, December 8, 2018 |
Conference website | https://www.wordplay2018.com |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wp2018 |
Submission deadline | November 9, 2018 |
Submission Guidelines
Papers should not have been previously presented at other conferences, but follow-up work, reviews or summaries of prior work, and papers submitted but not yet accepted elsewhere are welcome. Papers should be formatted according to the current NIPS style guide and are required to be under 5 pages in length, excluding references.
We welcome papers describing original research related to text-based games and their unique challenges, with a slight preference for work at the intersection of RL and NLP. This includes, but is not limited to, papers that investigate the following topics in the context of text-based games:
- RL in compositional, combinatorial action spaces
- Use of linguistic priors to constrain RL policies [Andreas et al., 2017]
- Learning representations of language suited to planning and decision-making, e.g., approximating Q-values while using the textual information in natural language action spaces [He et al., 2016]
- Fundamental RL challenges that are prevalent in text-based games, like (sub)goal identification and efficient exploration
- The use of gaming environments for RL research
- Grounded language understanding and linguistic common sense
- Online language acquisition via supervised, unsupervised, and transfer learning methods (e.g., affordance extraction [Fulda et al., 2017], action elimination [Zahavy et al., 2018])
- Language generation/evaluation in goal-oriented settings
- Procedural generation of games and training environments
- Automatic or crowdsourcing methods for linguistic diversity in simulation
- Algorithms and architectures for the Wordplay competition
Organizing committee
- Adam Trischler, Microsoft Research
- Angeliki Lazaridou, Google Deepmind
- Nate Kushman, Microsoft Research
- Wendy Tay, Microsoft Research
- Yonatan Bisk, University of Washington
- Marc-Alexandre Côté, Microsoft Research
- Alessandro Sordoni, Microsoft Research
- Daniel Ricks, Brigham Young University
- Tom Zahavy, Technion
- Hal Daumé III, Microsoft Research
Invited Speakers
- Katja Hofmann, Microsoft Research
- Karthik Narasimhan, Princeton
- Lihong Li, Google
- Devi Parikh, Georgia Tech
- Jason Weston, FAIR
- Marc Bellemare (Panel Moderator), Google
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to wp2018 [at] easychair [dot] org