Playing with knowledge: A virtual player for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? that leverages question answering techniques
We model a virtual player for Who Wants to be a Millionaire game. The virtual player uses Question Answering over Wikipedia and DBpedia knowledge. We performed experiments on the Italian and the English version of the game. The virtual player outperforms human players to correctly answer to questions of the game. The virtual player outperforms human players to play real games both in terms of level of the game reached and average income.
question answering language game natural language processing artificial intelligence decision making