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Verbosity: a game for collecting common-sense facts

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Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems table of contents

Montréal, Québec, Canada

SESSION: Games table of contents

Pages: 75 - 78

Year of Publication: 2006

ISBN:1-59593-372-7

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Luis von Ahn	Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Mihir Kedia	Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Manuel Blum	Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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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.

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