Question-Answering in Role-Playing Games From MSRC

Question-Answering in Role-Playing Games

"In this paper, we give a general description of the issues associated with performing basic Question-Answering (QA) tasks against non-player characters (NPCs) within a simple role-playing game (RPG) or virtual world environment. We describe the aspects of this kind of QA system and provide an overview of our initial explorations into the implementation and evaluation of a QA system that is appropriate for RPG environments. We also introduce Keystone, a simple RPG environment that provides a small virtual world that allows different NPC controller backends to be plugged in thus allowing these systems to be evaluated in a more realistic game environment."

While a little dry, I still thing this kind of interesting (mostly in the fact the MSRC is doing research into Human/NPC interaction... Working toward "Super Bob"? ;)

I just wish I could find out where to get the Keystone app that is mentioned...