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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453 docs completed
The most recent was Triskaidekaphobia (Wikipedia) completed by julie3164 on 26 Apr 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. 
JRS
1004
JRS
5004
JRS
1004
papillon
816
axnicho
587
julie3164
113
JMS
108
KarenWilliams
35
unai
31
Sherlink_Holmes
24
johnnickel
19
darraghsdream
16
Grammar
14
amm
14
johannes
11
KULIKOV
10
dragonstw
10
Jemsypie
9
hsalaverri001
9
carib
8
gully
7
domma
6
Fairy Tales - Frederick And Catherine (The Brothers Grimm) submitted by JRS
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