In this paper, the authors introduce blockchain lexicography, developed and prototyped within the framework of the open innovation exploration space (Research Group Methods and Innovation) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Blockchain lexicography exploits emerging technologies (e.g. the blockchain), social developments (do-it-yourself-science, crowd-innovation) and management methods and practices (open innovation), applying them to a case study of lexicography in order to create an accessible, constantly evolving linguistic resource. The authors deliver the design and a prototype of the system, as well as related data. The system, wugsy, prompts users to respond to simple language games derived from an initial dataset, with games tailored to match user profiles. Answers are recorded in a distributed database, which can be hosted, verified or queried by anyone. Responses to games are scored by consensus, and rewarded proportionally with a cryptocurrency token. A simple API allows extraction and filtering of database contents.
@InProceedings{MCDONALD18.22, author = {Daniel McDonald and Eveline Wandl-Vogt}, title = {Blockchain Lexicography: Prototyping the Collaborative, Participatory Post-Dictionary}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {may}, date = {7-12}, location = {Miyazaki, Japan}, editor = {}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, address = {Paris, France}, isbn = {979-10-95546-28-3}, language = {english} }
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