Corpus-based interpretation of instructions in virtual environments

  • Authors:
  • Luciana Benotti;Martín Villalba;Tessa Lau;Julián Cerruti

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina;Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina;IBM Research -- Almaden, San Jose, CA;IBM Argentina, Ing. Butty, Buenos Aires, Argentina

  • Venue:
  • ACL '12 Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Short Papers - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Previous approaches to instruction interpretation have required either extensive domain adaptation or manually annotated corpora. This paper presents a novel approach to instruction interpretation that leverages a large amount of unannotated, easy-to-collect data from humans interacting with a virtual world. We compare several algorithms for automatically segmenting and discretizing this data into (utterance, reaction) pairs and training a classifier to predict reactions given the next utterance. Our empirical analysis shows that the best algorithm achieves 70% accuracy on this task, with no manual annotation required.