Making people play for Lexical Acquisition with the JeuxDeMots prototype

Abstract

Lexical and semantic information are difficult to collect either automatically or manually, and as being instrumental in many (if not all) NLP applications, there is a serious bottleneck for advances in this research field. In this paper, we propose a novel approach by making people play some king of associative word games. Doing so, we can memorize associations where a pair of players agrees. We present the principles of the game and some insights of the data collected so far.