Katana and Grand Guru: a Game of the Lost Words (DEMO)

Alice Millour (1) , Marianne Grace Araneta (2) , Ivana Lazić Konjik (3) , Annalisa Raffone (4) , Yann-Alan Pilatte (1) , Karën Fort (1)

1 STIH - Sens, Texte, Informatique, Histoire
2 UNITN - Università degli Studi di Trento = University of Trento
3 Institute for the Serbian Language of SASA
4 UniOr - Università di Napoli L'Orientale = University of Naples

We present here a prototype of a role playing game which allows to both i) crowdsource lexical units (including idioms) for a language and ii) help the player improve their knowledge of the language. Our implementation of the game is focused on non-standardized languages, for which the intergenerational transmission is not as efficient as it used to be. In order to address this, we incentivize the participation of a "Grand Guru", from whom the player needs help to fulfill their mission.

Domaines: Informatique et langage [cs.CL]

Alice Millour, Marianne Grace Araneta, Ivana Lazić Konjik, Annalisa Raffone, Yann-Alan Pilatte, et al.. Katana and Grand Guru: a Game of the Lost Words (DEMO). 9th Language & Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics (LTC'19), May 2019, Poznań, Poland. ⟨hal-02106757⟩