Phrase Detectives - The AnaWiki annotation game
Welcome to Phrase Detectives
Lovers of literature, grammar and language, this is the place where you can work together to improve future generations of technology. By indicating relationships between words and phrases you will help to create a resource that is rich in linguistic information.Simply register a username and password and you can get started.
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454 docs completed
The most recent was Thagomizer (Wikipedia) completed by KarenWilliams on 18 May 2012See all
Quick instructions
You must search for relationships between words and phrases in a piece of text.1) NAME THE CULPRIT
You will be given a word or phrase and you must look for any evidence of it appearing earlier in the text. An example of this would be:
Sherlink Holmes went to the shop. He got some tobacco for his pipe.
The word in orange refers to "Sherlink Holmes".
2) DETECTIVES CONFERENCE
You will be asked whether you agree with another detective's decision. An example of this would be:
Sherlink Holmes went to the shop. It was closed.
The word in orange refers to the phrase in blue so you should agree with this decision.
Further instructions
New Facebook Game
You can also play Phrase Detectives on Facebook and win £50 for being the top scorer each month, as well as other prizes for being in the top 10.Play Facebook version
Detective's Bulletin
19 Apr 12
Analysis of player motivations will be presented at Collective Intelligence 2012
conference in Boston, MA. It seems the female players are coming out top!
22 Feb 11
The long-awaited Phrase Detectives Facebook game has gone live.Play the game.
01 Nov 10
Here are a few game stats for you number junkies. We have over 1.5 million examples of human language in the database
submitted by 3500 players, a collaborative effort of over 2700 hours or 112 days.
On average players are quicker to disagree with other players than to agree.
Exported data from the game shows that the combined answers of players
gives a very high quality result. A huge thank you to all detectives.
02 Aug 09
Phrase Detectives was presented at WWW in Madrid, WebSci in Athens and ACL in Singapore.28 Jan 09
Phrase Detectives' Jon Chamberlain is interviewed by BBC Radio.26 Jan 09
Articles about the game appear in
Innovations Report,
Science Daily,
PhysOrg and
L'Atelier.
01 Dec 08
A good article about the game is on CS4FN website.28 Oct 08
Read coglanglab's excellent article about Phrase Detectives.19 Sept 08
Phrase Detectives was presented at STEP 08 in Italy and
iSemantics in Austria. 
papillon
1809
papillon
5808
papillon
1809
JRS
1500
axnicho
963
Asterick6
249
julie3164
185
JMS
169
KarenWilliams
123
VB
48
gully
48
Grammar
36
johnnickel
32
unai
31
Sherlink_Holmes
30
Jemsypie
28
fontor
25
nuiotachi
25
gcernuschi
24
darraghsdream
22
Tobrien
20
livio.robaldo
19
Maschalismos (Wikipedia) submitted by LucyBlades
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