Can You Guess the Game You're Playing?

Can you guess the game you are playing?

A Multimodal Dialogue System for Playing the Game Guess the card

In this paper a dialogue system with spoken Spanish and computer vision that plays the game “Guess the card” with members of the general public in a permanent stand of the science museum Universum at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) is presented. The conceptual and architectural guidelines for the construction of the system are presented. An excerpt of an actual dialogue coll...

Playing Against the Game

Thepaperfirstoutlinesadifferentiationofplay/game-motivationsthatinclude‘negative’attitudes againsttheplay/gameitselflikecheatingorspoilsporting.Thisproblemisofparticularimportance inconcernoflearninggamesbecausetheyarenot‘played’forthemselves–atleastinthefirstplace –butduetoaninstructionalscheme.Sotheyarelikelytoprovokeresistanceamongt...

The Game-Playing Technique

In the game-playing technique, one writes a pseudocode game such that an adversary’s advantage in attacking some cryptographic construction is bounded above by the probability that the game sets a flag bad. This probability is then upper bounded by making stepwise, syntactical refinements to the pseudocode—a chain of games. The approach was first used by Kilian and Rogaway (1996) and has been u...

Playing the Festschrift Game

There are not many people who can be said to have influenced and impressed researchers in so many disparate areas and language-geographic fields as Lauri Carlson, as is evidenced in the present Festschrift. Lauri’s insight and acute linguistic sensitivity and linguistic rationality have spawned findings and research work in many areas, from non-standard etymology to hard-core formal linguistics...