Understanding Players as if They Are Talking to the Game in a Customized Language: A Pilot Study

Tianze Wang, Maryam Honarijahromi, Styliani Katsarou, Olga Mikheeva, Theodoros Panagiotakopoulos, Oleg Smirnov, Lele Cao, Sahar Asadi


Abstract
This pilot study explores the application of language models (LMs) to model game event sequences, treating them as a customized natural language. We investigate a popular mobile game, transforming raw event data into textual sequences and pretraining a Longformer model on this data. Our approach captures the rich and nuanced interactions within game sessions, effectively identifying meaningful player segments. The results demonstrate the potential of self-supervised LMs in enhancing game design and personalization without relying on ground-truth labels.
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2024.customnlp4u-1.5
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Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Customizable NLP: Progress and Challenges in Customizing NLP for a Domain, Application, Group, or Individual (CustomNLP4U)
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November
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2024
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Miami, Florida, USA
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Sachin Kumar, Vidhisha Balachandran, Chan Young Park, Weijia Shi, Shirley Anugrah Hayati, Yulia Tsvetkov, Noah Smith, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Dongyeop Kang, David Jurgens
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CustomNLP4U
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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47–52
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Tianze Wang, Maryam Honarijahromi, Styliani Katsarou, Olga Mikheeva, Theodoros Panagiotakopoulos, Oleg Smirnov, Lele Cao, and Sahar Asadi. 2024. Understanding Players as if They Are Talking to the Game in a Customized Language: A Pilot Study. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Customizable NLP: Progress and Challenges in Customizing NLP for a Domain, Application, Group, or Individual (CustomNLP4U), pages 47–52, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Understanding Players as if They Are Talking to the Game in a Customized Language: A Pilot Study (Wang et al., CustomNLP4U 2024)
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