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An analysis of verbs within video game structures based on a video game verb theory and The Secret of Monkey Island
The aims of this thesis are as followes: to provide a review of the idea presented by three
game designers – Chris Crawford, Raph Koster and Anna Anthropy – according to which,
verbs should be used to describe the interactions and inner rule structures of video games;
present these ideas as a unified theory of verbs within game structures; provide a method for analysing these verbs through syntactic theory presented by Bas Aarts and Van Valin and
LaPolla; apply the combined theory of verbs in game structures and the methodology and
concepts from syntax to analyse the verbs in the structure of the 1990 point and click
adventure game The Secret of Monkey Island and its 2009 Enhanced edition.http://www.ester.ee/record=b4678178*es
Cross-linguistic and cross-scriptal differences in auditory and visual attentional shifts : comparison between native Cantonese and English speakers
Lallier and colleagues (2010b) put forward a new hypothesis proposing the role of temporal interval between salient units in ones native language in shaping the speed of attentional shift. The present study investigated the applicability of this hypothesis to Cantonese speakers and English speakers by comparing their speed of attentional shift in auditory and visual stream segregation tasks. Contrary to Lallier et al.’s hypothesis, results of stepwise regressions revealed no group difference in the segregation thresholds in both modalities after controlling the participants’ mean reaction time and alerting score in the Flanker task, suggesting that the speed of attentional shift is language-independent. Additionally, this study established the normative data of attentional shift in the typical Cantonese-speaking adults. This information can serve as a basis for evaluating the relevance of “sluggish attentional shift” (SAS) to developmental dyslexia in Chinese with a logographic script, which may provide clinical insights to its diagnosis.published_or_final_versionSpeech and Hearing SciencesBachelorBachelor of Science in Speech and Hearing Science
Evaluating Human-Language Model Interaction
Many real-world applications of language models (LMs), such as writing
assistance and code autocomplete, involve human-LM interaction. However, most
benchmarks are non-interactive in that a model produces output without human
involvement. To evaluate human-LM interaction, we develop a new framework,
Human-AI Language-based Interaction Evaluation (HALIE), that defines the
components of interactive systems and dimensions to consider when designing
evaluation metrics. Compared to standard, non-interactive evaluation, HALIE
captures (i) the interactive process, not only the final output; (ii) the
first-person subjective experience, not just a third-party assessment; and
(iii) notions of preference beyond quality (e.g., enjoyment and ownership). We
then design five tasks to cover different forms of interaction: social
dialogue, question answering, crossword puzzles, summarization, and metaphor
generation. With four state-of-the-art LMs (three variants of OpenAI's GPT-3
and AI21 Labs' Jurassic-1), we find that better non-interactive performance
does not always translate to better human-LM interaction. In particular, we
highlight three cases where the results from non-interactive and interactive
metrics diverge and underscore the importance of human-LM interaction for LM
evaluation.Comment: Authored by the Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM) at
the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI
Are NLP Models Good at Tracing Thoughts: An Overview of Narrative Understanding
Narrative understanding involves capturing the author's cognitive processes,
providing insights into their knowledge, intentions, beliefs, and desires.
Although large language models (LLMs) excel in generating grammatically
coherent text, their ability to comprehend the author's thoughts remains
uncertain. This limitation hinders the practical applications of narrative
understanding. In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive survey of narrative
understanding tasks, thoroughly examining their key features, definitions,
taxonomy, associated datasets, training objectives, evaluation metrics, and
limitations. Furthermore, we explore the potential of expanding the
capabilities of modularized LLMs to address novel narrative understanding
tasks. By framing narrative understanding as the retrieval of the author's
imaginative cues that outline the narrative structure, our study introduces a
fresh perspective on enhancing narrative comprehension
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