diplomacy

of Europe. The rules are very simplistic, as everything has been diluted down to the bare

minimum. But the game itself is very complex, as it focusses on secret discussions

between players to make plans, deals, threats, and lies. This makes for a very exciting,

turbulent game. The Diplomacy Programming Project (DPP) aims to develop a complete

Diplomacy-playing software package. There are many difficulties to be overcome first,

though. Not only are seven-players games extremely complex, as seven different minds

control the progress of the game, but the simplicity of the rules mean that a human player

can easily gain a good mental grasp of a game position, so the computer cannot hope to

beat him by simple number crunching. Another obvious difficulty that the DPP faces is

the problem of diplomacy. Understanding what other players say, determining which

things are relevant, calculating what you should say, and translating that into prose are all

very tough problems in the field of Natural Language Processing. The first clear step is to

develop an artificial language to capture the variety of things which may need to be said

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