Using Language Strategically in Context - January 2023

Explore the strategic use of language in various contexts through this insightful lecture by Daniel Fried from the Center for Language & Speech Processing at Johns Hopkins University. Delve into the importance of modeling pragmatic aspects of language as NLP systems interact with people in diverse settings. Discover a procedure for generating and interpreting visually grounded navigation instructions, focusing on how listener and speaker models can imitate human language interpretation and production in grounded contexts. Learn about a reasoning procedure that enhances performance with human partners by predicting language interpretation and resolving ambiguity. Gain an overview of the CICERO project, which combines natural language negotiation and tactical coordination to achieve human-level performance in the game Diplomacy. Understand how CICERO integrates language models with planning and reinforcement learning algorithms to generate dialogue and choose mutually beneficial plans. Examine the impressive results of CICERO in an anonymous online Diplomacy league, where it achieved more than double the average score of human players.

Using Language Strategically in Context - Daniel Fried - January 2023