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Cipher: A Prototype Game-with-a-Purpose for Detecting Errors in Text

Xu, Liang orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-2619-1883 and Chamberlain, Jon orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-6947-8964 (2020) Cipher: A Prototype Game-with-a-Purpose for Detecting Errors in Text. In: The LREC 2020 Workshop on Games and Natural Language Processing, 11-16 May 2020, Marseille, France. ISBN 979-10-95546-60-3

Abstract
Errors commonly exist in machine-generated documents and publication materials; however, some correction algorithms do not perform well for complex errors and it is costly to employ humans to do the task. To solve the problem, a prototype computer game called Cipher was developed that encourages people to identify errors in text. Gamification is achieved by introducing the idea of steganography as the entertaining game element. People play the game for entertainment while they make valuable annotations to locate text errors. The prototype was tested by 35 players in a evaluation experiment, creating 4,764 annotations. After filtering the data, the system detected manually introduced text errors and also genuine errors in the texts that were not noticed when they were introduced into the game.
Metadata
Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Workshop
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Game with a purpose, error detection, gwap, distributed knowledge acquisition, text correction
Subjects:Computer Science > Computational linguistics
Computer Science > Computer software
Computer Science > Interactive computer systems
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing
DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Published in: Proceedings of the LREC 2020 Workshop on Games and Natural Language Processing. (17–25). European Language Resources Association. ISBN 979-10-95546-60-3
Publisher:European Language Resources Association
Official URL:https://aclanthology.org/2020.gamnlp-1.3/
Copyright Information:Authors
ID Code:31977
Deposited On:11 Dec 2025 11:12 by Liang Xu . Last Modified 11 Dec 2025 11:12
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