Games4NLP: Games and Gamification for Natural Language Processing

7 May 2018, Phoenix Seagaia Resort, Miyazaki (Japan)

Workshop description

It is our pleasure to announce the Games and Gamification for NLP (Games4NLP) workshop hosted at the 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), 7-12 May 2018, Miyazaki (Japan).

The Games4NLP workshop aims to promote and explore the possibilities for research and practical applications of using games and gamification for the creation of language resources for Natural Language Processing. The main objective is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss and share ideas regarding how the NLP research community can benefit from using game and gamification strategies.

The potential topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Games for collecting data useful for NLP (games in planning, under development, or deployed);
Games for under-resourced languages such as many Asian languages;
Analysis of game data from established games;
Gamification of NLP tasks (techniques, best practice and evaluation of gamification strategies);
Player motivation and experience (strategies for recruitment/retention and player profiling);
Game design (conceptual design elements and reports of success and/or failure of designs);
Processing NLP game data (aggregation methods and strategies for minimising noise and cheating);
Use of NLP game data (how game-generated data has been used for NLP applications);
Evaluation of games for NLP (metrics for evaluating game performance, evaluating player performance, motivation and bias, and evaluating task difficulty);
Directive strategies that attempt to use game metrics in real-time.

The workshop will be an interactive and dynamic full-day event that will be a mix of keynotes, paper and demo presentations as well as discussion sessions. The workshop will be held on Monday 7 May 2018 in the Phoenix Seagaia Resort, Miyazaki (Japan).

Program (0900-1300 7 May 2018)

09:00-09:10 Introduction by Workshop Chair

09.10-10.30 Session 1 (Chair: Karën Fort)
Invited talk: Did you also spend the last weekend playing your NLP game? (Ivan Habernal) Slides
Faseeh: A Serious Game for Arabic Syn-onym Acquisition (Hend Al-Khalifa, Hadil Faisal and Rawan N. Al-Matham)
Testing TileAttack with Three Key Audiences (Chris Madge, Massimo Poesio, Udo Kruschwitz and Jon Chamberlain)

10:30-10.50 Coffee break

10.50-11.50 Session 2 (Chair: Jon Chamberlain)
LieCatcher: Game Framework for Collecting Human Judgments of Deceptive Speech (Sarah Ita Levitan, James Shin, Ivy Chen and Julia Hirschberg) Slides
Cheap, fast and good! Voting Games with a Purpose (Karën Fort, Mathieu Lafourcade and Nathalie Le Brun) Slides
The JeuxDeMots Project is 10 Years Old: what Assessments? (Alain Joubert, Mathieu Lafourcade and Nathalie Le Brun) Slides

12.30-12.50 Project Updates
enetCollect COST Action (Verena Lyding and Lionel Nicolas) Slides
Lingo Boingo (Christopher Cieri) Slides

12.50-13.00 Concluding Remarks by Workshop Chair

Workshop Proceedings

Invited talk: Did you also spend the last weekend playing your NLP game? (Dr Ivan Habernal)

Serious games for NLP are believed to be a win-win situation: people enjoy playing a game and NLP researchers get their annotated data for free. But how come that only few of them succeed and hit their target audience even though they are elaborated and well-designed? In this talk, I will first review the landscape of current games for NLP and will present our attempt for a game from the perspective of the shoemaker's children who go barefoot. However, I will try to show that "pivoting" the product, starting asking the right questions, and leveraging human natural abilities might be a game changer! What if the answers are already out there but not yet in our Games4NLP community?

Dr Ivan Habernal is a postdoctoral researcher at UKP, Technische Universität Darmstadt. His main research interests are computational argumentation and argument mining, as well as Web corpora, serious games, and sentiment analysis. He has published numerous papers at major NLP venues (ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, LREC, Computational Lingustics) and recently co-chaired the 4th Workshop on Argument Mining co-located with EMNLP'17 in Copenhagen. Currently, he is the main organizer of the SemEval 2018 Task: The Argument Reasoning Comprehension Task, co-located with NAACL'18.

Enquiries

For all enquiries, please contact games4nlp@dali-ambiguity.eu

People

Co-chairs:

Jon Chamberlain (University of Essex, UK)
Udo Kruschwitz (University of Essex, UK)
Karën Fort (Université Paris-Sorbonne, France)
Chris Cieri (Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania, US)

Program committee:

Richard Bartle (University of Essex, UK)
Johan Bos (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Eric de la Clergerie (INRIA, France)
James Fiumara (Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania, US)
Bruno Guillaume (Inria Nancy Grand Est, France)
Ivan Habernal (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)
Frank Hopfgartner (University of Glasgow, UK)
Michael Meder (TU Berlin, Germany)
Mathieu Lafourcade (LIRMM, France)
Verena Lyding (EURAC, Italy)
Lionel Nicolas (EURAC, Italy)
Massimo Poesio (Queen Mary University, UK)
Pontus Stenetorp (University College London, UK)

Previous Events

Games4NLP'17
Games4NLP held an independent symposium co-located with the 15th European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) Conference in April 2017 in Valencia, Spain.