Verbosity: a game for collecting common-sense facts Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:912093, abstract = {We address the problem of collecting a database of ""common-sense facts"" using a computer game. Informally, a common-sense fact is a true statement about the world that is known to most humans: ""milk is white,"" ""touching hot metal hurts,"" etc. Several efforts have been devoted to collecting common-sense knowledge for the purpose of making computer programs more intelligent. Such efforts, however, have not succeeded in amassing enough data because the manual process of entering these facts is tedious. We therefore introduce Verbosity, a novel interactive system in the form of an enjoyable game. People play Verbosity because it is fun, and as a side effect of them playing, we collect accurate common-sense knowledge. Verbosity is an example of a game that not only brings people together for leisure, but also collects useful data for computer science.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {von Ahn, Luis and Kedia, Mihir and Blum, Manuel}, booktitle = {CHI '06: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems}, citeulike-article-id = {912093}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1124772.1124784}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1124772.1124784}, doi = {10.1145/1124772.1124784}, isbn = {1-59593-372-7}, keywords = {human\_computation}, location = {Montr\'{e}al, Qu\'{e}bec, Canada}, pages = {75--78}, posted-at = {2009-07-20 15:48:58}, priority = {3}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Verbosity: a game for collecting common-sense facts}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1124772.1124784}, year = {2006} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:912093 L3 - citeulike-article-id:912093 N2 - We address the problem of collecting a database of ""common-sense facts"" using a computer game. Informally, a common-sense fact is a true statement about the world that is known to most humans: ""milk is white,"" ""touching hot metal hurts,"" etc. Several efforts have been devoted to collecting common-sense knowledge for the purpose of making computer programs more intelligent. Such efforts, however, have not succeeded in amassing enough data because the manual process of entering these facts is tedious. We therefore introduce Verbosity, a novel interactive system in the form of an enjoyable game. People play Verbosity because it is fun, and as a side effect of them playing, we collect accurate common-sense knowledge. Verbosity is an example of a game that not only brings people together for leisure, but also collects useful data for computer science. CY - Montr\'{e}al, Qu\'{e}bec, Canada SN - 1-59593-372-7 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 78 TI - Verbosity: a game for collecting common-sense facts PB - ACM T2 - CHI '06: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems SP - 75 KW - human_computation AU - von Ahn, Luis AU - Kedia, Mihir AU - Blum, Manuel PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1124772.1124784 ER -