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Executing Instructions in Situated Collaborative Interactions

Oct 17, 2019
Alane Suhr, Claudia Yan, Jacob Schluger, Stanley Yu, Hadi Khader, Marwa Mouallem, Iris Zhang, Yoav Artzi

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We study a collaborative scenario where a user not only instructs a system to complete tasks, but also acts alongside it. This allows the user to adapt to the system abilities by changing their language or deciding to simply accomplish some tasks themselves, and requires the system to effectively recover from errors as the user strategically assigns it new goals. We build a game environment to study this scenario, and learn to map user instructions to system actions. We introduce a learning approach focused on recovery from cascading errors between instructions, and modeling methods to explicitly reason about instructions with multiple goals. We evaluate with a new evaluation protocol using recorded interactions and online games with human users, and observe how users adapt to the system abilities.

* EMNLP 2019 long paper 
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