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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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
Detective's Bulletin
11 July 10
Thanks to all the players who played during the Dodge the Ball competition.
29 May 10
We are approaching 1.5 million examples of human language in the database. Exported data from the game shows that the combined answers of players
gives a very high quality result.
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.
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. 
axnicho
1452
axnicho
1406
axnicho
1452
papillon
1205
JRS
1054
CrashCat
429
oanhtt
245
KULIKOV
244
gully
197
JMS
117
VB
104
Grammar
48
livio.robaldo
44
johnnickel
41
effani
29
magoogy
23
Sherlink_Holmes
23
carib
15
121a0012
14
blbuc
13
monkeyhanger
13
tortoise
13
Fairy Tales - The Three Languages (The Brothers Grimm) submitted by CrashCat
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