A Framework for Exploring Player Perceptions of LLM-Generated Dialogue in Commercial Video Games (2023.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | evaluating the player experience in a roleplaying game augmented with LLM-generated dialogue remains a major challenge. |
| Approach: | They propose a dynamic evaluation framework for the dialogue management systems that govern the task-oriented dialogue often found in roleplaying video games. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework directly evaluates the performance of LLM-generated dialogue in a role-playing game with 28 players. |
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