2024/06/12 by Isidora Jeknić, David Schlangen, Jeknić, Isidora +3 · 2 citations
Computer Science · #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Speech and dialogue systems
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2406.08202
openalex publication_date 2024/06/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Collaboration is an integral part of human dialogue. Typical task-oriented dialogue games assign asymmetric roles to the participants, which limits their ability to elicit naturalistic role-taking in collaboration and its negotiation. We present a novel and simple online setup that favors balanced collaboration: a two-player 2D object placement game in which the players must negotiate the goal state themselves. We show empirically that human players exhibit a variety of role distributions, and that balanced collaboration improves task performance. We also present an LLM-based baseline agent which demonstrates that automatic playing of our game is an interesting challenge for artificial systems.