File created: July 22, 2008
Author: David Chen (dlcc@cs.utexas.edu)

This directory contains the data used in the paper

"Learning to Sportscast: A Test of Grounded Language Acquisition"
David L. Chen and Raymond J. Mooney
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) , Helsinki, Finland, July 2008.

and

"Training a Multilingual Sportscaster: Using Perceptual Context to Learn Language"
D. L. Chen, J. Kim and R. J. Mooney
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, vol. 37 (2010): 397-435 

The subdirectories are organized as follows:

games - Robocup game files 
events - Extracted events from the game files
nl - Commentaries recorded from human commentators
training - Constructed ambiguous training examples from the events and commentary files
gold - Human-annotated files which are unambiguous versions of the training files

The README files in each subdirectory explains the format of each file type in detail.

The mrl-grammar file contains a simple context-free grammar for parsing the events/meaning representations (MRs).  The starting symbol for the grammar is *n:S