Games that improves Search Engines and computer search performance

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Written by Team Josh
Thursday, 15 May 2008
Suppose you are searching for some music tracks with humor, what would you write as your search query? "Humor tracks"? But what result would you get. Some audio tracks which starts with "humor" word! Soon, this is going to be changed. US-based Carnegie Mellon University has launched a new Web site – www.gwap.com – which is made up of five simple games that are each designed to help computers with tasks they can’t automatically do. “There are a lot of things that computers cannot do,” said Luis von Ahn, an assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon. “So what we’re doing is getting humans to do it for computers.” The games can be played by people of any age. The games are: • ESP: in this game opposing players are shown a picture and they try to guess what words the other player will use to describe the image. The aim is to help improve image searches on the Internet by creating descriptions of uncaptioned images. • Matchin: opposing players are shown two images and asked to choose which one they like best. As more players choose the same image, more points are racked up. The goal is to help computers recognize what images people would prefer to see when they are searching for pictures on the Web. • Tag a Tune: where players describe the music they hear in audio clips. It’s part of an effort to help computers search for music with keywords other than just the title of the song. • Verbosity: It asks one player to describe a word and the other to guess what the word is. The purpose is to amass facts for use by artificial intelligence programs. • Squigl: where two players are given a word describing a part of an image and must trace what the word is describing. Points are awarded based on how similarly the players traced the image. The goal is to help computers more easily recognize images. Set as favorite Bookmark Email This Hits: 449 Trackback(0) TrackBack URI for this entry Comments (0) Subscribe to this comment's feed Write comment Name Website Comment smaller \| bigger Subscribe via email (Registered users only) I have read and agree to the Terms of Usage. Write the displayed characters
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