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Games for Semantic Content Creation
This page contains a up to date list of games that are used for semantic content creation.
Games for video annotation
OntoTube
OntoTube is a two player quiz game for annotating videos. Both players have to answer questions about the video. The answers they provide are used for data generation.
Data output: Semantic annotations using a simplified domain ontology.
Validation: Consensus, majority.
Contact: katharina.siorpaes@sti2.atPopVideo
PopVideo is a two multi player game for annotating videos. All the players watch the same movie clip simultaneously and have to type in what they see. They earn points for similar answers. Additionally, the closer the answers are in respect to time the more points they earn.
Data output: Annotations of the objects in a video.
Validation: Consensus, majority.
Contact: support@gwap.comVideotaggame
Yahoo's Videotaggame works basically like PopVideo except that it allows to re - watch the video clip afterwards and see who entered what and when.
Data output: Annotations of the objects in a video.
Validation: Consensus, majority.
Contact: http://labs.yahoo.com/contactTAG - The Annotation Game
The Annotation Game works similar as PopVideo.
Data output: Annotations of the objects in a video.
Validation: Consensus, majority.
Contact: annotationgame@gmail.comWaisda
Waisda works like TAG and PopVideo. However, it uses live video shows to be annotated.
Data output: Annotations of the objects in a video.
Validation: Consensus, majority.
Contact: waisda@beeldengeluid.nl
Games for image annotation
Google Image Labeler
The Google image labler is a two player game. In each game round, both players get to see the same picture and have to type in the objects they see. As soon as they agree on a term they earn points and proceed to the next picture. Additionally, frequent answered words are put on a black list. Typing in a blacklisted word is not rewarded.
Data output: Annotations describing the objects in an image.
Validation: Consensus, majority.
Contact: http://www.google.com/support/bin/request.pyESP Game
Works like the Google image labeler, except for a nicer interface.
Data output: Annotations of the objects in an image.
Validation: Consensus, majority.
Contact: support@gwap.comSquigl
Squigl is a two player game for locating the position of objects in images. Both players get to see the same image and an object. They get a short period of time to outline the object on the image. The more similar their path is the more points they get. Objects are taken from the tags retrieved by the ESP game.
Data output: Locations of the objects in an image.
Validation: Consensus, majority.
Contact: support@gwap.comMatchin
Matchin is a two player game for finding beautiful images. Both players get to see two images and have to agree on which they like better.
Data output: The "beauty" of images.
Validation: Consensus, majority.
Contact: support@gwap.comFlip It
Flip It is a game for pointing out similarly looking images. It is based on the well known Memory game. Players have to identify images that show similarly looking objects out of 16 images that are covered like in Memory. To do so they are allowed to use a so called "life line". A life line reveals all images for a short period amount of times.
Data output: Annotations of the objects in the video.
Validation: Majority.
Contact: support@gwap.com
Games for audio file annotation
HerdIt
HerdIt is a multi player game for annotating audio files. It consists of several different mini games which are all about parts of music clips. All players have to listen to the same tune and afterwards answer questions about it. The more similar your answer is compared to the others the more points you get.
Data output: Annotations describing audio files.
Validation: Consensus, majority.
Contact: lukeinusa@gmail.comTag a tune
Tag a tune is a two player game. Both players get to hear a tune which is either the same or a different piece of music. They have to describe what they are hearing and based on these descriptions decide whether you are listening to the same tune or not.
Data output: Annotations describing audio files.
Validation: Consensus, majority.
Contact: support@gwap.com
Games for text annotation
Verbosity
Verbosity is a two player game for describing concepts with other phrases. One player gets a concept which they have to describe by using pre-defined phrases. The other player has to guess the concept based on the descriptions of their partners. After each game round these two roles are swapped, i.e. the guesser becomes the describer and vice versa.
Data output: Descriptions of concepts.
Validation: Consensus, majority.
Contact: support@gwap.comPhrase Detective
Phrase Detective is a game that aims to identify relations words and phrases. A player gets different questions about these relationships in one or more sentences.
Data output: Relationships between words and phrases.
Validation: Validation by asking other players, majority.
Contact: jchamb@essex.ac.uk
Games for ontology building
OntoPronto
OntoPronto is a two player quiz game for building Proton grounded domain ontology. Players get to read the abstract of a random Wikipedia article and have answer questions about the nature of this article in respect to Proton.
Data output: A Proton grounded domain ontology.
Validation: Consensus, majority.
Contact: katharina.siorpaes@sti2.at
Games for ontology alignment
Wordhunger Freebase
Wordhunger is a web application game that maps concepts from Wordnet synonym sets to cocepts of Freebase datasets. Players simply map one concept after the other and earn points for doing so.
Data output: Mappings from Wordnet synonym sets to Freebase dataset concepts.
Validation: Majority.
Contact: paritosh@cs.northwestern.eduSpotTheLink
SpotTheLink is a two player quiz game for aligning ontologies, e.g. DBpedia and Proton. Both players get a concept from the one ontology. In the first step they have to agree on a matching concept of the other ontology and in the second step they have to agree on the relationship between these concepts.
Data output: A SKOS mapping between the ontologies' concepts.
Validation: Consensus, majority.
Contact: katharina.siorpaes@sti2.at
Wikiracing Games
Wordhunger WikipediaGame
WikipediaGame is a Wiki racing game. One user creates a "race", i.e. a rout of links between two Wikipedia articles. Players have to find the route with as few clicks as possible.
Data output: -
Validation: -
Contact: paritosh@cs.northwestern.eduWikipediaMaze
Another Wikiracing game that works similar as WikipediaGame.
Data output: -
Validation: -
Contact: micah@codingcontext.comWikispeedia
A third Wikiracing game that uses its results for calculating the semantic distance between two Wikipedia articles.
Data output: Semantic distance between two articles.
Validation: Majority.
Contact: west@cs.mcgill.ca
