Response 8

Read this paper:

• TextWorld: A learning Environment for Text-based Games Links to an external site.. Marc-Alexandre Côté, Ákos Kádár, Xingdi (Eric) Yuan, Ben Kybartas, Tavian Barnes, Emery Fine, James Moore, Matthew Hausknecht, Layla El Asri, Mahmoud Adada, Wendy Tay, Adam Trischler. Computer Games Workshop at ICML/IJCAI 2018, June 2018.

This paper is about the TextWorld Links to an external site., a Microsoft research project for generating and learning to play text-based games.

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