MindCraft: Theory of Mind Modeling for Situated Dialogue in Collaborative Tasks
EMNLPSep 13, 2021Outstanding Paper
An ideal integration of autonomous agents in a human world implies that they
are able to collaborate on human terms. In particular, theory of mind plays an
important role in maintaining common ground during human collaboration and
communication. To enable theory of mind modeling in situated interactions, we
introduce a fine-grained dataset of collaborative tasks performed by pairs of
human subjects in the 3D virtual blocks world of Minecraft. It provides
information that captures partners' beliefs of the world and of each other as
an interaction unfolds, bringing abundant opportunities to study human
collaborative behaviors in situated language communication. As a first step
towards our goal of developing embodied AI agents able to infer belief states
of collaborative partners in situ, we build and present results on
computational models for several theory of mind tasks.