Game Commentary Datasets

A Descriptive Basketball Highlight Dataset for Automatic Commentary Generation MM 2024

The emergence of video captioning makes it possible to automatically generate natural language description for a given video. However, generating detailed video descriptions that incorporate domain-specific information …...

A Hybrid Deep Learning Model for Automated Cricket Commentary Generation ICCCMLA 2024

The paper proposes an innovative method for generating cricket commentary. A hybrid model is proposed that combines three types of neural networks: Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) for image processing, Long …...

A Japanese Chess Commentary Corpus LREC 2016

In recent years there has been a surge of interest in the natural language prosessing related to the real world, such as symbol grounding, language generation, and nonlinguistic data search by natural language queries. …...

Annotating Event Appearance for Japanese Chess Commentary Corpus LREC 2020

In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in natural language processing related to the real world, such as symbol grounding, language generation, and non-linguistic data search by natural language queries. …...

Annotating Modality Expressions and Event Factuality for a{Japanese Chess Commentary Corpus LREC 2018

In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in the natural language processing related to the real world, such as symbol grounding, language generation, and nonlinguistic data search by natural language queries. …...

Aspect-based Sentiment Evaluation of Chess Moves (ASSESS): an NLP-based Method for Evaluating Chess Strategies from Textbooks LREC 2024

The chess domain is well-suited for creating an artificial intelligence (AI) system that mimics real-world challenges, including decision-making. Throughout the years, minimal attention has been paid to investigating …...

Audio Commentary System for Real-Time Racing Game Play INLG 2023

Live commentaries are essential for enhancing spectators’ enjoyment and understanding during sports events or e-sports streams. We introduce a live audio commentator system designed specifically for a racing game, …...

Automated cricket commentary generation using deep learning ICIASC 2023

This work presents an automated and novel system for cricket commentary generation by the introduction of event driven approach and image captioning features. The presented system uses artificial intelligence and machine …...

Automated Story Selection for Color Commentary in Sports T-CIAIG 2013

Automated sports commentary is a form of automated narrative. Sports commentary exists to keep the viewer informed and entertained. One way to entertain the viewer is by telling brief stories relevant to the game in …...

Ball-by-Ball Cricket Commentary Generation using Stateful Sequence-to-Sequence Model ComTech 2021

Due to the availability of high performance computational devices and enormous video data, deep learning algorithms are assisting for human understandable description of videos. Automatic commentary generation of cricket …...

Commentary Generation from Data Records of Multiplayer Strategy Esports Game NAACL 2024

Esports, a sports competition on video games, has become one of the most important sporting events. Although esports play logs have been accumulated, only a small portion of them accompany text commentaries for the …...

Conceptual Representation and Evaluation of an FPS Game Commentary Generator ICIPRob 2022

Playing video games has been popular across all the age limits of modern society. In the beginning, it was limited among the younger community and it was just a hobby limited to individuals. Even though the majority of …...

CS-lol: a Dataset of Viewer Comment with Scene in E-sports Live-streaming CHIIR 2023

Billions of live-streaming viewers share their opinions on scenes they are watching in real-time and interact with the event, commentators as well as other viewers via text comments. Thus, there is necessary to explore …...

Detection and labeling of bad moves for coaching go CIG 2016

The level of computer programs has now reached professional strength for many games, even for the game of Go recently. A more difficult task for computer intelligence now is to create a program able to coach human …...

Enhancing Commentary Strategies for Imperfect Information Card Games: A Study of Large Language Models in Guandan Commentary Arxiv 2023

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have unlocked the potential for generating high-quality game commentary. However, producing insightful and engaging commentary for complex games with incomplete …...

Extraction of Strong and Weak Regions of Cricket Batsman through Text-Commentary Analysis INMIC 2020

Cricket is a famous game in the world where many metrics are introduced and being used to help the coaches and umpires to solve the critical problems. Though different statistics are used to quantify the player’s …...

Fine-Grained Video Captioning via Graph-based Multi-Granularity Interaction Learning T-PAMI 2022

Learning to generate continuous linguistic descriptions for multi-subject interactive videos in great details has particular applications in team sports auto-narrative. In contrast to traditional video caption, this task …...

From eSports Data to Game Commentary: Datasets, Models, and Evaluation Metrics DEIM 2021

Electronic sports (eSports), the sport competition using video games, has become one of the most popular sporting events now. The eSports audience needs textual commentaries for deeply understanding the games and for …...

Game-MUG: Multimodal Oriented Game Situation Understanding and Commentary Generation Dataset Arxiv 2024

The dynamic nature of esports makes the situation relatively complicated for average viewers. Esports broadcasting involves game expert casters, but the caster-dependent game commentary is not enough to fully understand …...

GameFlow: Narrative Visualization of NBA Basketball Games TMM 2016

Although basketball games have received broad attention, the forms of game reports and webcast are purely content-based cross-media: texts, videos, snapshots, and performance figures. Analytical narrations of games that …...

Generating commentaries for tennis videos ICPR 2016

We present an approach to automatically generating verbal commentaries for tennis games. We introduce a novel application that requires a combination of techniques from computer vision, natural language processing and …...

Generating Live Soccer-Match Commentary from Play Data AAAI 2019

We address the task of generating live soccer-match commentaries from play event data. This task has characteristics that (i) each commentary is only partially aligned with events, (ii) play event data contains many …...

Generating Racing Game Commentary from Vision, Language, and Structured Data INLG 2021

We propose the task of automatically generating commentaries for races in a motor racing game, from vision, structured numerical, and textual data. Commentaries provide information to support spectators in understanding …...

GOAL: A Challenging Knowledge-grounded Video Captioning Benchmark for Real-time Soccer Commentary Generation CIKM 2023

Despite the recent emergence of video captioning models, how to generate vivid, fine-grained video descriptions based on the background knowledge (i.e., long and informative commentary about the domain-specific scenes …...

Learning a game commentary generator with grounded move expressions CIG 2015

This paper describes a machine learning-based approach for generating natural language comments on Shogi games. We generate comments by using a discriminative language model trained with a large amount of Shogi game …...

Learning to Generate Move-by-Move Commentary for Chess Games from Large-Scale Social Forum Data ACL 2018

This paper examines the problem of generating natural language descriptions of chess games. We introduce a new large-scale chess commentary dataset and propose methods to generate commentary for individual moves in a …...

Learning to sportscast: a test of grounded language acquisition ICML 2008

We present a novel commentator system that learns language from sportscasts of simulated soccer games. The system learns to parse and generate commentaries without any engineered knowledge about the English language. …...

LoL-V2T: Large-Scale Esports Video Description Dataset CVPRW 2021

Esports is a fastest-growing new field with a largely online-presence, and is creating a demand for automatic domain-specific captioning tools. However, at the current time, there are few approaches that tackle the …...

MatchTime: Towards Automatic Soccer Game Commentary Generation ACL 2024

Soccer is a globally popular sport with a vast audience, in this paper, we consider constructing an automatic soccer game commentary model to improve the audiences’ viewing experience. In general, we make the …...

MOBA-E2C: Generating MOBA Game Commentaries via Capturing Highlight Events from the Meta-Data EMNLP 2022

MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) games such as Dota2 are currently one of the most popular e-sports gaming genres. Following professional commentaries is a great way to understand and enjoy a MOBA game. However, …...

Multimodal Joint Emotion and Game Context Recognition in League of Legends Livestreams COG 2019

Video game streaming provides the viewer with a rich set of audio-visual data, conveying information both with regards to the game itself, through game footage and audio, as well as the streamer’s emotional state …...

Outcome Classification in Cricket Using Deep Learning CCEM 2019

With the growth in applications of Artificial Intelligence day by day, every domain is going automated. Machine learning has enabled systems to learn the process on its own in order to reduce the human labour. In sports …...

Scaling up SoccerNet with Multi-view Spatial Localization and Re-identification Sci. Data 2022

Soccer videos are a rich playground for computer vision, involving many elements, such as players, lines, and specific objects. Hence, to capture the richness of this sport and allow for fine automated analyses, we …...

SentiMATE: Learning to play Chess through Natural Language Processing Arxiv 2019

We present SentiMATE, a novel end-to-end Deep Learning model for Chess, employing Natural Language Processing that aims to learn an effective evaluation function assessing move quality. This function is pre-trained on …...

SOCCER: An Information-Sparse Discourse State Tracking Collection in the Sports Commentary Domain NAACL 2021

In the pursuit of natural language understanding, there has been a long standing interest in tracking state changes throughout narratives. Impressive progress has been made in modeling the state of transaction-centric …...

SoccerNet-Caption: Dense Video Captioning for Soccer Broadcasts Commentaries CVPRW 2023

Soccer is more than just a game - it is a passion that transcends borders and unites people worldwide. From the roar of the crowds to the excitement of the commentators, every moment of a soccer match is a thrill. Yet, …...

SoccerNet-Echoes: A Soccer Game Audio Commentary Dataset SIM 2024

The application of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology in soccer enables sports analytics by extracting audio commentaries to provide insights into game events and facilitate automatic game understanding. This …...

SoccerNet-v2: A Dataset and Benchmarks for Holistic Understanding of Broadcast Soccer Videos CVPRW 2021

Understanding broadcast videos is a challenging task in computer vision, as it requires generic reasoning capabilities to appreciate the content offered by the video editing. In this work, we propose SoccerNet-v2, a …...

SoccerNet: A Scalable Dataset for Action Spotting in Soccer Videos CVPRW 2018

In this paper, we introduce SoccerNet, a benchmark for action spotting in soccer videos. The dataset is composed of 500 complete soccer games from six main European leagues, covering three seasons from 2014 to 2017 and a …...

Sports Commentary Recommendation System (SCoReS): machine learning for automated narrative AIIDE 2012

Automated sports commentary is a form of automated narrative. Sports commentary exists to keep the viewer informed and entertained. One way to entertain the viewer is by telling brief stories relevant to the game in …...

Story Selection and Recommendation System for Colour Commentary in Cricket IJARSE 2015

During a cricket match, commentary keeps the viewers entertained and updated about the game. Quoting relevant stories related to the current game scenario makes the game more interesting. But the knowledge of …...

TenniSet: A Dataset for Dense Fine-Grained Event Recognition, Localisation and Description DICTA 2017

This paper introduces a new video understanding dataset which can be utilised for the related problems of event recognition, localisation and description in video. Our dataset consists of dense, well structured event …...

Training a Multilingual Sportscaster: Using Perceptual Context to Learn Language JAIR 2010

We present a novel framework for learning to interpret and generate language using only perceptual context as supervision. We demonstrate its capabilities by developing a system that learns to sportscast simulated robot …...

Understanding Game-Playing Agents with Natural Language Annotations ACL 2022

We present a new dataset containing 10K human-annotated games of Go and show how these natural language annotations can be used as a tool for model interpretability. Given a board state and its associated comment, our …...