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Can Sequence-to-Sequence Models Crack Substitution Ciphers?
Nada Aldarrab, Jonathan May
Decipherment of historical ciphers is a challenging problem. The language of the target plaintext might be unknown, and ciphertext can have a lot of noise. State-of-the-art deciphe…
Learning to Generalize for Sequential Decision Making
Xusen Yin, Ralph Weischedel, Jonathan May
We consider problems of making sequences of decisions to accomplish tasks, interacting via the medium of language. These problems are often tackled with reinforcement learning appr…
Summary-Oriented Question Generation for Informational Queries
Xusen Yin, Li Zhou, Kevin Small +1
Users frequently ask simple factoid questions for question answering (QA) systems, attenuating the impact of myriad recent works that support more complex questions. Prompting user…
Grounding Conversations with Improvised Dialogues
Hyundong Cho, Jonathan May
Effective dialogue involves grounding, the process of establishing mutual knowledge that is essential for communication between people. Modern dialogue systems are not explicitly t…
Zero-Shot Learning of Text Adventure Games with Sentence-Level Semantics
Xusen Yin, Jonathan May
Reinforcement learning algorithms such as Q-learning have shown great promise in training models to learn the optimal action to take for a given system state; a goal in application…
Experience Grounds Language
Yonatan Bisk, Ari Holtzman, Jesse Thomason +9
Language understanding research is held back by a failure to relate language to the physical world it describes and to the social interactions it facilitates. Despite the incredibl…