{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/nail-a-general-interactive-fiction-agent","title":"NAIL: A General Interactive Fiction Agent","arxiv_id":"1902.04259","date":"2019-02-12","proceeding":null,"authors":["Matthew Hausknecht","Ricky Loynd","Greg Yang","Adith Swaminathan","Jason D. Williams"],"abstract":"Interactive Fiction (IF) games are complex textual decision making problems.\nThis paper introduces NAIL, an autonomous agent for general parser-based IF\ngames. NAIL won the 2018 Text Adventure AI Competition, where it was evaluated\non twenty unseen games. This paper describes the architecture, development, and\ninsights underpinning NAIL's performance.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04259v2","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.04259v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"nail-a-general-interactive-fiction-agent","repo_url":"https://github.com/Microsoft/nail_agent","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":{"status":"ok"}}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"decision-making","task_name":"Decision Making"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1902.04259","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}