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6 Conclusions and Future Work
This paper describes another approach to linguistic data collecting. It is designed mainly
for collecting common sense propositions within Czech language. Czech is a minor lan-
guage thus we cannot expect millions of propositions within a few months like GWAP
[9]. We are strongly interested to players’ motivation.
Game history is available for each game, so we can identify the words that are hard
to explain (many passes, few propositions) or conversely the words that are easy to
explain (best scored guesses). Further analysis should answer the question why some
words are “easy” and others are not. We have to carefully choose the words for each
level so that players stay motivated.
The major contribution of this work is the method how to collect common sense
propositions in Czech. We have to evaluate the reliability of the collection over time.
We expect that a plausible number of common sense propositions will be collected over
time.
Acknowledgements
This work has been partly supported by the Ministry of Education of CR within the
Center of basic research LC536.
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