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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259 docs completed
The most recent was What Christmas Is As We Grow Older (Charles Dickens) completed by JRS on 12 Mar 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
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. 
JRS
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JRS
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JRS
1264
JMS
956
KULIKOV
380
axnicho
209
udo
185
BellyDancer
93
xwingace
88
livio.robaldo
72
VB
72
gully
46
carib
43
stella
41
mp
39
johnnickel
38
prufrax
35
n3rd
27
papillon
27
Grammar
21
magoogy
20
holderfamily
10
Pillow fight flash mob (Wikipedia) submitted by axnicho
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