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Intonation in English
This blog post is based on the game "Actors Challenge" on Lingo Boingo. To play, click here. What is Intonation? Intonation is the way...
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Lingo Boingo
- Dec 20, 2023
- 2 min
Q&A with Developer of "Actors Challenge"
Actors Challenge is a new game on Lingo Boingo. Players record themselves "auditioning" for a part or "casting" others. The object of the...
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Lingo Boingo
- Mar 2, 2023
- 3 min
Reference Words in Text and Speech
In text and speech, we often use interesting linguistic concepts called endophora and exophora. Endophora is the process of referring to...
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Lingo Boingo
- Feb 9, 2023
- 2 min
Lexical Networks
A lexical network can be defined as a representation of the relationships between words occurring in natural languages. There are many...
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Lingo Boingo
- Feb 6, 2023
- 3 min
Games With a Purpose (GWAPs)
Computers sometimes cannot complete tasks or solve problems that are done easily by humans. Humans can help solve these computational...
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Lingo Boingo
- Dec 15, 2022
- 3 min
TileAttack: Annotating Noun Phrases Against Another Player
Humans are very good at identifying noun phrases and their corresponding anaphors (phrases that refer back to another word in the text to...
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Lingo Boingo
- Dec 15, 2022
- 2 min
WordClicker Bakery: Make Cakes and Annotate Parts of Speech
WordClicker Bakery is a game featured on Lingo Boingo's website. To play, click here. WordClicker Bakery is a click-and-drag game about...
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Lingo Boingo
- Dec 15, 2022
- 3 min
Rigor Mortis: Identify Multi-Word Expressions
This blog is based on Rigor Mortis, a game in which participants annotate multi-word expressions (MWEs) in French. To play, head to Lingo...
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Lingo Boingo
- Dec 12, 2022
- 3 min
Know Your Nyms: Identify Semantic Relations
Know Your Nyms is available to play on Lingo Boingo's website. To participate, click here. Know Your Nyms is a fun, fast-paced language...
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Lingo Boingo
- Oct 10, 2022
- 3 min
A Q&A With Phrase Detectives Developers
Phrase Detectives is a game on Lingo Boingo that collects data on how humans understand anaphora, which is the act of referring to...
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Lingo Boingo
- Sep 8, 2022
- 2 min
Humans, Technology, and Language Identification
Previously in this blog, we talked about how humans recognize and identify spoken language. We can take it a step further and look at how...
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Lingo Boingo
- Aug 30, 2022
- 3 min
How Do We Identify Spoken Language?
This blog post was inspired by "Name that Language", a game on Lingo Boingo where users listen to short audio clips and try to guess what...
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