A game of lines: Developing game mechanics for text classification

TY - GEN

T1 - A game of lines

T2 - 8th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop, IIR 2017

AU - Di Nunzio, Giorgio Maria

AU - Maistro, Maria

AU - Zilio, Daniel

PY - 2017/1/1

Y1 - 2017/1/1

N2 - In this paper, we describe a set of experiments that turn the machine learning classification task into a game, through gamification techniques, and let non expert users to perform text classification without even knowing the problem. The application is implemented in R using the Shiny package for interactive graphics. We present the outcome of three different experiments: A pilot experiment with PhD and post-doc students, and two experiments carried out with primary and secondary school students. The results show that the human aided classifier performs similarly and sometimes even better than state of the art classifiers.

AB - In this paper, we describe a set of experiments that turn the machine learning classification task into a game, through gamification techniques, and let non expert users to perform text classification without even knowing the problem. The application is implemented in R using the Shiny package for interactive graphics. We present the outcome of three different experiments: A pilot experiment with PhD and post-doc students, and two experiments carried out with primary and secondary school students. The results show that the human aided classifier performs similarly and sometimes even better than state of the art classifiers.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85029214288&partnerID=8YFLogxK

M3 - Conference article

AN - SCOPUS:85029214288

SN - 1613-0073

VL - 1911

SP - 40

EP - 47

JO - CEUR Workshop Proceedings

JF - CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Y2 - 5 June 2017 through 7 June 2017

ER -