[Corpora-List] World of Warcraft Corpus

[Craig Pfeifer]

Having played the game, I think it might be interesting to collect the
conversations of folks who are trying to attain the same goal. There are
different situations where this occurs:

Player vs. Player : http://www.wowwiki.com/Player_vs._Player
Raids : http://www.wowwiki.com/Raid

Player vs. Player (PvP) is just what it sounds: there is a scenario with
two opposing teams and a goal, usually:
- capture and hold territory
- infiltrate the other base, gain an item and bring it back to your base
- defend your base

There are text chat channels for all folks in the scenario, and for each
team.

Raids are where a group of players that are trying to defeat a non-player
enemy. Raid groups can be anywhere from 5 to 40 depending on the specific
scenario. Raids tend to be more coordinated, as the non-player enemy's
tactics are known up front and players are expected to know them and act
appropriately (aka "don't die"). Raid groups tend to be composed from
player groups called guilds, which players can join to reap the benefits of
playing the game with their friends.

There are also text chat channels for all folks in the raid, but the really
good groups tend to use voice chat. It is hard to chat via text while you
are also using the keyboard to play the game.

Just my $.02

Craig

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On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Clai Rice <cxr1086 at louisiana.edu> wrote:

>
> I had a student who wanted to do this some years ago. After looking at
> terms of service, we decided the only way to do it ethically was to stand
> in one of the trade or auction zones. He collected an interesting corpus
> of selling language that he compared to print want ads, but there was very
> little in it interesting for other kinds of interaction.
>
> There was one other idea, which was to adopt a linguist persona in the
> game, and go everywhere saying "I'm a linguist, can I please record our
> conversation for anonymous use?" and get people to assent. We never tried
> it.
>
> The YouTube idea is a good one--there are hundreds of thousands of game
> videos posted. But it would be hard to get any information about speakers,
> and conversations are not always complete.
>
> Clai Rice
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Valentini Mellas [mailto:valentini.mellas at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 7:34 AM
> To: Tino Didriksen
> Cc: liling tan; corpora at uib.no
> Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] World of Warcraft Corpus
>
> Wouldn't that have too much noise from people selling goods at auction
> though?
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Tino Didriksen <tino at didriksen.cc> wrote:
> On 9 September 2013 07:46, liling tan <alvations at gmail.com> wrote:
> Any suggestions/advice on how to collect a WoW chat corpus?
>
> Use free Trial accounts to stand around in Orgrimmar and/or Stormwind and
> log the trade chat by enabling /chatlog ( see
> http://www.wowwiki.com/MACRO_chatlog ).
>
> -- Tino Didriksen
>
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