[Corpora-List] Linguistic games with a purpose

[Michal Ptaszynski]

Hi Johan,

Thanks for the link to the games. It seems interesting, although I have  
some questions, which popped into my mind while playing the first game.

What is the purpose for the player to play the game? Obviously just for  
"achievements" and "being better than others" is not enough. What can you  
use the points for? For example you could add unlocking new areas/games,  
buying (for points?) new skins, etc. to make the game more "for purpose".

Did you think of people who lose on purpose? Especially when you highlight  
that just by playing the game one helps in corpus annotation, I can  
imagine people (perhaps not many, but still) wanting to add some error  
rate to your annotations. Are you ready to deal with that?

The account verification process also allows the above unwanted  
situations. After providing all information (even false) the player is  
automatically logged in. How about allowing logging in after email  
verification? Of course one could create an email just for the occasion,  
but that would increase the effort for the potential wrongdoers.

What about communication between players? You could allow inside-mail, or  
chatting.

Best,
Michal

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Od: "J.Bos" <johan.bos at rug.nl>
Do: corpora at uib.no
Data: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:04:14 +0200
Temat: [Corpora-List] Linguistic games with a purpose

Wordrobe is a brand new linguistic game with a purpose (released last  
week). In fact, there are several games one can play. Currently there are  
games on homographs, word senses, and pronouns, and there are more to  
come. Playing a Wordrobe game helps to improve the quality of the  
Groningen Meaning Bank, a large semantically annotated corpus.

Play it here: www.wordrobe.org


 

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