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Webpardy: harvesting QA by HC

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We present a human computation online game for enabling users to contribute to the creation of a corpus of question-resource pairs for harvesting web-based question answering. Our idea was motivated by the popular 'jeopardy' quiz.

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              HCOMP '10: Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Human Computation
              July 2010
              95 pages
              ISBN:9781450302227
              DOI:10.1145/1837885

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