ACL2020

Learning to execute instructions in a Minecraft dialogue

Prashant Jayannavar, Anjali Narayan-Chen, Julia Hockenmaier

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Abstract

The Minecraft Collaborative Building Task is a two-player game in which an Architect A instructs a Builder B to construct a target structure out of 3D blocks. We consider the task of predicting B's action sequences (block placements and removals) in a given game context, and show that capturing B's past actions as well as B's perspective leads to a significant improvement in performance on this challenging language understanding problem.