Procedural content generation (PCG) refers to the practice of generating game content, such
as levels, quests or characters, algorithmically. Motivated by the need to make games …

Continual learning in task-oriented dialogue systems can allow us to add new domains and
functionalities through time without incurring the high cost of a whole system retraining. In …

Current dialogue research primarily studies pairwise (two-party) conversations, and does
not address the everyday setting where more than two speakers converse together. In this …

With the recent development of deep learning, AI models are widely used in various
domains. AI models show good performance for definite tasks such as image classification …

Interactive fictions—also called text-based games—are games in which a player interacts
with a virtual world purely through textual natural language. In this work, we focus on …

Interactive fictions, or text-adventures, are games in which a player interacts with a world
entirely through textual descriptions and text actions. Text-adventure games are typically …

We introduce a language generation task grounded in a popular video game environment.
KNUDGE (KNowledge Constrained User-NPC Dialogue GEneration) requires models to …

Text Worlds are virtual environments for embodied agents that, unlike 2D or 3D
environments, are rendered exclusively using textual descriptions. These environments offer …

We present Spindle, a mixed initiative tool for authoring choice-based interactive fiction that
targets Twine, a popular framework for text-based storygames. Twine artifacts have …

AI researchers have posited Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) as a challenge problem to test
systems on various language-related capabilities. In this paper, we frame D&D specifically …