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| Title | Leveraging the Wisdom of the Crowds for the Acquisition of Multilingual Language Resources |
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| Authors | Arno Scharl, Marta Sabou, Stefan Gindl, Walter Rafelsberger and Albert Weichselbraun |
| Abstract | Games with a purpose are an increasingly popular mechanism for leveraging the wisdom of the crowds to address tasks which are trivial for humans but still not solvable by computer algorithms in a satisfying manner. As a novel mechanism for structuring human-computer interactions, a key challenge when creating them is motivating users to participate while generating useful and unbiased results. This paper focuses on important design choices and success factors of effective games with a purpose. Our findings are based on lessons learned while developing and deploying Sentiment Quiz, a crowdsourcing application for creating sentiment lexicons (an essential component of most sentiment detection algorithms). We describe the goals and structure of the game, the underlying application framework, the sentiment lexicons gathered through crowdsourcing, as well as a novel approach to automatically extend the lexicons by means of a bootstrapping process. Such an automated extension further increases the efficiency of the acquisition process by limiting the number of terms that need to be gathered from the game participants. |
| Topics | Acquisition, Text mining, Tools, systems, applications |
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Leveraging the Wisdom of the Crowds for the Acquisition of Multilingual Language Resources |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{SCHARL12.210, author = {Arno Scharl and Marta Sabou and Stefan Gindl and Walter Rafelsberger and Albert Weichselbraun}, title = {Leveraging the Wisdom of the Crowds for the Acquisition of Multilingual Language Resources}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)}, year = {2012}, month = {may}, date = {23-25}, address = {Istanbul, Turkey}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Mehmet Uğur Doğan and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {978-2-9517408-7-7}, language = {english} } |