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Phrase Detectives - The AnaWiki annotation game

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 2012
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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.


 
 
Top Scores
papillon
1809
papillon
5808
Leaderboard

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

Most recent game decision
Maschalismos (Wikipedia) submitted by LucyBlades


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