@article{hausknecht2019nail, author = {Hausknecht, Matthew and Loynd, Ricky and Yang, Greg and Swaminathan, Adith and Williams, Jason}, title = {NAIL: A General Interactive Fiction Agent}, year = {2019}, month = {February}, abstract = {Interactive Fiction (IF) games are complex textual decision making problems. This paper introduces NAIL, an autonomous agent for general parser-based IF games. NAIL won the 2018 Text Adventure AI Competition, where it was evaluated on twenty unseen games. This paper describes the architecture, development, and insights underpinning NAIL’s performance.}, url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/nail-a-general-interactive-fiction-agent/}, journal = {arXiv: Machine Learning}, }