AIFeb 12, 2019
NAIL: A General Interactive Fiction Agent
arXiv:1902.04259v239 citations
Originality Incremental advance
AI Analysis
This addresses the challenge of complex textual decision-making in games for AI researchers, but it is incremental as it builds on existing competition frameworks.
The paper tackled the problem of creating an autonomous agent for general parser-based Interactive Fiction games, resulting in NAIL winning the 2018 Text Adventure AI Competition by being evaluated on twenty unseen games.
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.