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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225 docs completed
The most recent was Industrial musical (Wikipedia) completed by gully on 08 Feb 2010See 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
You can win a £10 cash voucher every day with Phrase Detectives during Febuary 2010.
Every day we pick a detective at random, the more you play the higher chance you have of winning.
Winners so far: JMS (1 Feb), JRS (2 Feb), prufrax (3 Feb), gully (4 Feb), gully (5 Feb), johnnickel (6 Feb), JMS (7 Feb)
Congratulations to livio.robaldo who won January's top prize of $500, and also to johnnickel (2nd) and holderfamily (3rd).
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Winners so far: JMS (1 Feb), JRS (2 Feb), prufrax (3 Feb), gully (4 Feb), gully (5 Feb), johnnickel (6 Feb), JMS (7 Feb)
Congratulations to livio.robaldo who won January's top prize of $500, and also to johnnickel (2nd) and holderfamily (3rd).
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Detective's Bulletin
21 Dec 09
In the first year of being live you have given us over 700,000 examples of human language, a collaborative effort of over 1500 hours.
To celebrate we are giving out prizes every day! More info...
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 gets 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. 
gully
7301
JMS
15345
gully
7301
JMS
4673
johnnickel
2113
machinist
1474
JRS
1233
axnicho
849
papillon
706
jon
677
livio.robaldo
333
prufrax
280
VB
257
udo
251
carib
155
holderfamily
146
magoogy
118
ggw10
104
Justmaker
70
KULIKOV
65
trelex
61
Lupian
42
Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead (Wikipedia) submitted by johnnickel
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