Report on the First NLG Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE)

نویسندگان

  • Donna Byron
  • Alexander Koller
  • Kristina Striegnitz
  • Justine Cassell
  • Robert Dale
  • Johanna D. Moore
  • Jon Oberlander
چکیده

We describe the first installment of the Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE), a new shared task for the NLG community. We motivate the design of the challenge, describe how we carried it out, and discuss the results of the system evaluation.

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تاریخ انتشار 2009