Generating Instructions at Different Levels of Abstraction

  • 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics 2020 The (Creator)
  • Jörg Hoffmann (Creator)
  • Daniel Höller (Creator)
  • Arne Köhn (Creator)
  • Alexander Koller (Creator)
  • Alvaro Torralba (Creator)
  • Julia Wichlacz (Creator)

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Description

When generating technical instructions, it is often convenient to describe complex objects in the world at different levels of abstraction. A novice user might need an object explained piece by piece, while for an expert, talking about the complex object (e.g. a wall or railing) directly may be more succinct and efficient. We show how to generate building instructions at different levels of abstraction in Minecraft. We introduce the use of hierarchical planning to this end, a method from AI planning which can capture the structure of complex objects neatly. A crowdsourcing evaluation shows that the choice of abstraction level matters to users, and that an abstraction strategy which balances low-level and high-level object descriptions compares favorably to ones which don’t.
Date made available8 Dec 2020
PublisherUnderline Science Inc.

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