naitian
naitian.org
naitian
@naitian.org
NLP / CSS PhD at Berkeley I School. I develop computational methods to study culture as a social language.
some of them are football games and some of them are… football games, but different
December 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Yes! All credit to @teaywright.bsky.social!
December 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
We hope this corpus will be useful for linguists, cognitive scientists, or anyone else who wants to study language use in complex + goal-oriented environments! You can explore our data here:

Data explorer: berkeley-nlp.github.io/portal-dialo...
YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCQw...

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Portal Dialogue Corpus - Data Explorer
berkeley-nlp.github.io
December 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
We also provide dialogue act annotations and timestamps of when players completed subtasks for each level. We can use these annotations to show that, e.g., directives are more common before the completion of hard tasks, while confirmations are more common after. 3/n
December 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Many linguistic phenomena like spatial reference or convention formation are underrepresented in existing datasets, because they’re not embodied in complex or goal-oriented environments. In this clip, players combine both language and movement to successfully establish left vs right. 2/n
December 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The pelican looks great but the bike is completely absent; I’d give it a 3/10 at best.
November 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM