Crowdsourcing for a Geographical and Social Mapping of Italian Dialects

Abstract

Linguistic field research depends on collecting phrases and sentences as well as their geographical and social characteristics. The traditional method of field research –researchers asking questions and filling forms– is time-consuming, costly, and not free of biases. This article presents metropolitalia, a Webbased crowdsourcing platform for linguistic field research aiming at overcoming some of the drawbacks of traditional linguistic field research. metropolitalia is built upon Agora, a market for trading with phrases and speculating on their characteristics in a playful manner. Two games are run under Agora, Borsa Parole and Poker Parole, that aim at collecting complementary data and meta-data: Borsa Parole incites players to express their own knowledge or, rather, beliefs, Poker Parole incites players to make conjectures on the beliefs of others, thus enhancing the primary meta-data collected with Borsa Parole with secondary, or reflexive, meta-data needed for language perception studies. This article describes Agora with both games and reports on first evaluations of the data gathered so far.

Contributors

François Bry

Fabian Kneissl

Thomas Krefeld

Stephan Lücke

Christoph Wieser

Conference

Publication date: May 2013

Publication date (Print): May 2013

Pages: 11-20

Affiliations

Institute for Informatics

Ludwig-Maximilian University

Munich, Germany

IT Group Humanities

Ludwig-Maximilian University

Munich, Germany

Article

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/SOHUMAN2013.3

Copyright statement: © François Bry et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. 2nd International Workshop on Social Media for Crowdsourcing and Human Computation (SoHuman 2013), Paris, France

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Conference name: 2nd International Workshop on Social Media for Crowdsourcing and Human Computation (SoHuman 2013)

Conference acronym: SOHUMAN

Conference number: 2

Conference location: Paris, France

Conference date: 1 May 2013

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Social Media for Crowdsourcing and Human Computation (SoHuman 2013)

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing