Artificial Intelligence in a German Adventure Game: Spion in PROLOG
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/cj.v6i1.9-23Keywords:
artificial intelligence, CALL, adventure games, parsing, natural language processing, PROLOG, ICAI, coursewareAbstract
Spion is an adventure game intended as a teaching tool for intermediate and advanced college German. It recognizes and 'understands' a small subset of German large enough to allow a student to play the game. To win the game, players are required to communicate with a fictitious agent in complete, correct German sentences. The version of the game described here was written in PROLOG as the natural outgrowth of a series of earlier programs. The program runs on an IBM-PC or compatible and is available at no cost for noncommercial purposes.References
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