OntoGame: Games with a Purpose for the Semantic Web

OntoGame in IEEE Intelligent Systems May 2008

noreply@blogger.com (Katharina Siorpaes) — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:31:00 +0000

Katharina Siorpaes and Martin Hepp: Games with a Purpose for the Semantic Web. IEEE Intelligent Systems, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 50-60, May/June 2008. Additional data and material: www.ontogame.org/evaluation

OntoTube: coming soon!

noreply@blogger.com (Katharina Siorpaes) — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:30:00 +0000

OntoTube, the new game for annotating YouTube videos will be released soon. Check back!

OntoGame @ ESWC 2008

noreply@blogger.com (Katharina Siorpaes) — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:07:00 +0000

We are happy to announce that our paper, describing the OntoGame series, has been accepted for publication at the European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2008 in Tenerife, Spain.

In the paper, we describe the OntoGame idea and the generic OntoGame platform. We also delineate gaming scenarios for various tasks plus our respective prototypes. Based on the analysis of user data and interviews with players, we provide preliminary evidence that users enjoy the games and are willing to dedicate their time to those games and are able to produce high-quality conceptual choices.

Reference:
Katharina Siorpaes and Martin Hepp: OntoGame: Weaving the Semantic Web by Online Gaming, Proceedings of the European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2008, Springer LNCS, Tenerife, Spain, June 2008. (Forthcoming)

OntoGame Competition: The Winners

noreply@blogger.com (Katharina Siorpaes) — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:20:00 +0000

The winners of the OntoGame competition are:

MVEITH
BONZO
HLEWEN

We will contact the winners shortly by e-mail.

Congratulations!

The OntoGame Competition: starting NOW!

noreply@blogger.com (Katharina Siorpaes) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:39:00 +0000

Win a cool OntoGame T-Shirt in the OntoGame competition: the first three players in the OntoGame ranking on January 31, 2008 at 11:59 pm win one of our cool OntoGame T-Shirts.

Check out www.ontogame.org

Let's Play!

OntoGame Up and Runnin'!

noreply@blogger.com (Katharina Siorpaes) — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:34:00 +0000

As some of the OntoGame players might have noticed, OntoGame was offline yesterday due to server problems. However, we fixed them and OntoGame is up and runnin' again.

Please play again :)

Another comment

noreply@blogger.com (Katharina Siorpaes) — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:28:00 +0000

I like the idea very, very much, and I think it has a very strong potential.

What I like about OntoGame (from the survey)

noreply@blogger.com (Katharina Siorpaes) — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:27:00 +0000

I like reading bits of wikipedia, and the idea that playing the game is productive, and the collaborative element is a nice idea.

A comment from a survey we conducted

noreply@blogger.com (Katharina Siorpaes) — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:22:00 +0000

+ Quite a good game mechanic (reliance on speed as well as accuracy) + Nice to feel you're contributing to something useful

A comment by a player

noreply@blogger.com (Katharina Siorpaes) — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:21:00 +0000

First, I like that it's a way to add more sementic info to the data. More to the game itself, it would be great if there were more variety in the types of items coming up. The frequency of people being the resource started to make it a bit repetitive. (However, the addition of the shortcut to gender info was a smart move). Because I have a bit of knowledge about semantic web ontologies, I sometimes found that that knowledge might be making me choose options that seem quite obvious, but my partner chooses something different. I'd be curious about what data you would get if people were paired according to whether they are familiar with rdf, foaf, skos or whether they are not. I think that I'd respond to the game -- and learn more from it myself -- if I could see that info about my partner. Thanks much--I love the game!

OntoGame on SushiKnights.org (Spanish only)

noreply@blogger.com (Katharina Siorpaes) — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:36:00 +0000

OntoGame: El Juego Semántico Viernes 21 de Diciembre del 2007 ::

por agraves

Con la intención de mostrar cómo entender una ontología, un grupo de la Universidad de Innsbruck desarrolló el (primero de muchos) OntoGame: Este consiste en ser capaz de descifrar a qué categoría pertenece el tema central de un artículo extraído de Wikipedia. Esta es una buena forma de como aprender ir entendiendo lo que son las ontologías. Pero vamos por partes...

La verdad es que el juego es super sencillo: El sistema elige una entrada de wikipedia (AFAIK está sólo disponible en inglés) y en base a ella, el primer paso es decidir si corresponde a una instancia (es decir, un objeto particular) o una clase (un concepto general). Para entender la diferencia, la entrada "Automovil" se consideraría una clase (la clase automovil) mientras que "mi automovil" es una instancia de ella.

En la medida que vayamos acertando debemos ser cada vez más específicos: por ejemplo, si la entrada se refiera a una instancia, que es, un objeto, un evento? Si es un objeto, es un agente, una organización?

La idea además es ser rápido, ya que se juega contra el tiempo, tratando de clasificar la mayor cantidad de entradas posibles. En general, el el juego es super explicativo y si no entiendes un concepto siempre hay ayudas explicando a que se refiere cada categoría.

El juego está disponible aquí. El único pero es que es necesario registrarse, lo cual siempre es molesto, pero creo que vale la pena aunque sea para probarlo un par de veces.

from: http://sushiknights.org/2007/12/ontogame_el_juego_sem_ntico.html

OntoGame on Missing Data

noreply@blogger.com (Katharina Siorpaes) — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:25:00 +0000

From http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/12/17/ontology-game-humans-matching-concepts/

Ontology Game: Humans Matching Concepts

December 17, 2007 · No Comments

A new “ontology game” has recently been announced, as a “game with a purpose” to help get humans to categorize objects properly according to a formal ontology.

How it Works

The game operates in a way that’s similar to Google’s image tagging application; pairs of users who do not know one another are presented with the abstract from a Wikipedia page, and they have to choose categories in an upper ontology that accurately describe the article. (E.g. does it correspond to an abstract concept? An agent? A happening?) Users get points when both users choose the same answer to categorize an article. As the game goes on, the categorization gets more and more specific until it “bottoms out” in the upper ontology. At that point, you jump to a new article and start the process over again.

Gameplay

In terms of gameplay, it feels a little bit rough in part because the game doesn’t choose the articles very intelligently. (In one case, I got the same article twice in a row) Also, after you tag 5-6 different articles, the player has a good working knowledge of the taxonomy of the upper ontology, and it becomes less fun as the game devolves into categorization along lines you’ve seen many times before. The key difference here from Google’s image tagging game is that in Google’s game, people enter free-form words, so your input is almost limitless. Oh, and one other thing - in order to categorize properly, you have to read the 2-3 sentence descriptions of what the categories mean, which can take some time the first time around when you have 6-7 categories to choose from.

These don’t appear to me though to be fatal problems for the game, just teething problems. It could be fun if the data set was widened substantially, and the category choice perhaps narrowed a bit. And of course in the background, they’re building an interesting data set mapping Wikipedia articles to high-level concepts of what they represent.

Addictive

noreply@blogger.com (Katharina Siorpaes) — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:23:00 +0000

"2007-12-18T22:38:37Z mburtis Martha @patrickgmj I think I could get addicted to ontogame very quickly. . . "

from

https://twitter.com/mburtis/statuses/512051762

Forget "Onto" ...

noreply@blogger.com (Katharina Siorpaes) — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:22:00 +0000

"Forget 'onto' and the semantic web related tags. This is a nifty game for critical thinking and classification. (It's just a bonus that it'll make the semantic web better! ;) )"

patrickgmj