Your one stop shop for all things interactive narrative + AI!
Back to the '80s
Date and time: August 16, 2024
Location: Bangkok, Thailand at the Centara Grand and Bangkok Convention Centre - Lotus Suite 12
Virtual links: Gather: HERE
Zoom: HERE
This workshop focused on exploring the utility of interactive narratives, think everything from classic text-adventures like Zork to modern Twine games, to fill a role as the learning environments of choice for language-based tasks including but not limited to storytelling. A few previous iterations of this workshop took place very successfully with hundreds of attendees, at NeurIPS 2018, NeurIPS 2020, & NAACL 2022. Since then, the community of people working in this area has rapidly increased. This workshop aims to be a centralized place where all researchers involved across a breadth of fields can interact and learn from each other. Furthermore, it will act as a showcase to the wider NLP/RL/Game communities on interactive narrative’s place as a learning environment. The program will feature a collection of invited talks in addition to contributed talks and posters from each of these sections of the interactive narrative community and the wider NLP and RL communities.
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Submission website: OpenReview
Submission deadline: Apr 19 May 17 May 31, 2024, 23:59 (Anywhere On Earth)
Author notification: May 24 June 17, 2024
We welcome original research papers ranging between 4-8 pages in length (not including references or supplementary materials), formatted according to the ACL 2023 style. Submissions should be in .pdf format. Since the review process is double-blind, all papers should be appropriately anonymised. Authors have the option of including supplementary manuscript containing further details of their work into the same .pdf file, it is entirely up to the reviewers to decide whether they wish to consult this additional material. Authors are strongly encouraged to make data and code publicly available whenever possible. The accepted papers will be posted on the workshop website and will not appear in the ACL proceedings.
In addition, we welcome extended abstracts of up to 2 pages that describe open problems and challenges in this area. The papers will be non-archival, we welcome papers that have been published or submitted to other places. However, authors are required to acknowledge their papers’ original appearance in such cases.
All accepted papers and extended abstracts will be presented as posters. The program committee will select a few papers for oral presentation.
Opening Remarks
Eastern Time 22:20 – 22:40 (Aug 15)
Keynote 1 - Ida Momennejad (remote)
Eastern Time 22:40 – 23:30 (Aug 15)
Coffee Break & Poster Session 1
Eastern Time 23:30 – midnight (Aug 15)
Keynote 2 - Yoav Artzi (remote)
Eastern Time 00:00 – 00:50
Keynote 3 - Emily Dinan (remote)
Eastern Time 00:50 – 01:40
Lunch Break & Poster Session 2
Eastern Time 01:40 – 02:40
Lightning talks by remote presenters (recordings)
Eastern Time 02:40 – 03:40
Keynote 4 - Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder (in-person)
Eastern Time 03:40 – 04:30
Coffee Break & Poster Session 3
Eastern Time 04:30 – 05:00
Keynote 5 - Joyce Chai (in-person)
Eastern Time 05:00 – 05:50
Closing Remarks
Eastern Time 05:50 – 06:00
