MACC'97 Session: Human Interface
This paper describes MIKE, an automatic commentary system for the game of Soccer. Since Soccer is played by teams, describing the course of a game calls for reasoning about multi-agent interactions. MIKE itself is also a multi-agent system, using a role-sharing structure to mediate between six concurrently running soccer analysis agents, including two agents that carry out high-level expert analysis. MIKE's multi-agent nature mirrors the way that human commentators often perform in teams, and reflects the dynamic nature of the Soccer domain; events may occur at any point of the field at any time, making it difficult to fix viewpoints. We describe MIKE's agents and also discuss how to control the interaction between these agents so that an explanation of a game emerges reactively from the system. We present and evaluate examples of the match commentaries produced by MIKE in English, Japanese and French.
automatic commentary system, reactive system, natural language generation
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