Points, Paths, and Playscapes: Large-scale Spatial Language Understanding Tasks Set in the Real World

Jason Baldridge, Tania Bedrax-Weiss, Daphne Luong, Srini Narayanan, Bo Pang, Fernando Pereira, Radu Soricut, Michael Tseng, Yuan Zhang


Abstract
Spatial language understanding is important for practical applications and as a building block for better abstract language understanding. Much progress has been made through work on understanding spatial relations and values in images and texts as well as on giving and following navigation instructions in restricted domains. We argue that the next big advances in spatial language understanding can be best supported by creating large-scale datasets that focus on points and paths based in the real world, and then extending these to create online, persistent playscapes that mix human and bot players, where the bot players must learn, evolve, and survive according to their depth of understanding of scenes, navigation, and interactions.
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W18-1406
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W18-1406v1
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W18-1406v2
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Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding
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June
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2018
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New Orleans
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Parisa Kordjamshidi, Archna Bhatia, James Pustejovsky, Marie-Francine Moens
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SpLU
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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46–52
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https://aclanthology.org/W18-1406
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W18-1406
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Jason Baldridge, Tania Bedrax-Weiss, Daphne Luong, Srini Narayanan, Bo Pang, Fernando Pereira, Radu Soricut, Michael Tseng, and Yuan Zhang. 2018. Points, Paths, and Playscapes: Large-scale Spatial Language Understanding Tasks Set in the Real World. In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding, pages 46–52, New Orleans. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Points, Paths, and Playscapes: Large-scale Spatial Language Understanding Tasks Set in the Real World (Baldridge et al., SpLU 2018)
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