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title = "Mapping Natural Language Instructions to Mobile {UI} Action Sequences",
author = "Li, Yang and
He, Jiacong and
Zhou, Xin and
Zhang, Yuan and
Baldridge, Jason",
editor = "Jurafsky, Dan and
Chai, Joyce and
Schluter, Natalie and
Tetreault, Joel",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
month = jul,
year = "2020",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.729",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.729",
pages = "8198--8210",
abstract = "We present a new problem: grounding natural language instructions to mobile user interface actions, and create three new datasets for it. For full task evaluation, we create PixelHelp, a corpus that pairs English instructions with actions performed by people on a mobile UI emulator. To scale training, we decouple the language and action data by (a) annotating action phrase spans in How-To instructions and (b) synthesizing grounded descriptions of actions for mobile user interfaces. We use a Transformer to extract action phrase tuples from long-range natural language instructions. A grounding Transformer then contextually represents UI objects using both their content and screen position and connects them to object descriptions. Given a starting screen and instruction, our model achieves 70.59{\%} accuracy on predicting complete ground-truth action sequences in PixelHelp.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Mapping Natural Language Instructions to Mobile UI Action Sequences
%A Li, Yang
%A He, Jiacong
%A Zhou, Xin
%A Zhang, Yuan
%A Baldridge, Jason
%Y Jurafsky, Dan
%Y Chai, Joyce
%Y Schluter, Natalie
%Y Tetreault, Joel
%S Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
%D 2020
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Online
%F li-etal-2020-mapping
%X We present a new problem: grounding natural language instructions to mobile user interface actions, and create three new datasets for it. For full task evaluation, we create PixelHelp, a corpus that pairs English instructions with actions performed by people on a mobile UI emulator. To scale training, we decouple the language and action data by (a) annotating action phrase spans in How-To instructions and (b) synthesizing grounded descriptions of actions for mobile user interfaces. We use a Transformer to extract action phrase tuples from long-range natural language instructions. A grounding Transformer then contextually represents UI objects using both their content and screen position and connects them to object descriptions. Given a starting screen and instruction, our model achieves 70.59% accuracy on predicting complete ground-truth action sequences in PixelHelp.
%R 10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.729
%U https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.729
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.729
%P 8198-8210
Markdown (Informal)
[Mapping Natural Language Instructions to Mobile UI Action Sequences](https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.729) (Li et al., ACL 2020)
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