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NAIL: A General Interactive Fiction Agent

Artificial Intelligence 2019-02-18 v2
Authors: Matthew Hausknecht , Ricky Loynd , Greg Yang , Adith Swaminathan , Jason D. Williams
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Abstract

Interactive Fiction (IF) games are complex textual decision making problems. This paper introduces NAIL, an autonomous agent for general parser-based IF games. NAIL won the 2018 Text Adventure AI Competition, where it was evaluated on twenty unseen games. This paper describes the architecture, development, and insights underpinning NAIL's performance.

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@article{arxiv.1902.04259,
  title  = {NAIL: A General Interactive Fiction Agent},
  author = {Matthew Hausknecht and Ricky Loynd and Greg Yang and Adith Swaminathan and Jason D. Williams},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.04259},
  year   = {2019}
}

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