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.Detective tasks
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
Join the detective team
Simply provide a username and password and you can get started.You will be given a short training task to check you have understood the instructions and so you can get the hang of the game.
Register here
Scoring points & medals
In the Name The Culprit task you must decide if a phrase has been mentioned before. Your decision will be examined in the Detectives Conference and you will receive extra points the more that other detectives agree with you.When you are invited to the Detectives Conference you will receive bonus points for agreeing with other detectives. Click on the points box during the game to find out more about your score.
Weekly and monthly high scores are rewarded with medals.
Further instructions
Detective's Bulletin
28 Aug 08
Phrase Detectives will be presented at the iSemantics conference in Austria next week. 22 Aug 08
Phrase Detectives is released for public beta testing. If you come across any problems please submit them on the feedback page.19 Aug 08
Headquarters have been converting large amounts of text from Project Gutenberg. The beta release however will only use an initial selection of Aesop and Grimm
Brothers stories, as well as text from the Getty Museum (the GNOME corpus).
