Emergent semantics from game-induced folksonomies

Lilian Weng, Filippo Menczer
2012 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Data Mining - CrowdKDD '12  
We describe the GiveALink Slider, an experimental social tagging game designed with the purpose of generating meaningful and useful annotations to improve upon the drawbacks of existing folksonomies. Knowledge, in the form of reliable annotations, is validated and accumulated through the implicit interactions among multiple players. In this paper we explore the hypothesis that such a game can improve both the quality and quantity of social annotation data. Our evaluation of game-induced
more » ... ons shows that games may improve on the semantic structure of existing folksonomies from several perspectives, including searchability, novelty, and coherence. Games can therefore play a valuable role in the collection of helpful annotations, by leveraging human power and specific game design features.
doi:10.1145/2442657.2442658 fatcat:2jacnlmm7bbgff4c4pkfhr5vde