FLIN: A Flexible Natural Language Interface for Web Navigation

This repository contains the code and dataset for "FLIN: A Flexible Natural Language Interface for Web Navigation" by Sahisnu Mazumder and Oriana Riva, which was accepted in the 2021 Conference of North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2021).

If you use any of the materials in this repository, please cite the following paper.

bibtex
@inproceedings{flin21:naacl,
author = {Sahisnu Mazumder and Oriana Riva},
title = {{FLIN}: A Flexible Natural Language Interface for Web Navigation},
year = {2021},
booktitle = {Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NACCL 2021)},
eprint={2010.12844},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
address = {online},
month = jun
}

Overview

The WebNav dataset is provided in the webnav_dataset folder which contains the dataset files along with a README file describing the data file format. The code is provided in the code folder which contains the source code and trained model dumps for reproducibility purposes. For instructions on how to run the code see the README file in the code folder.

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