Another weird thing is that certain words, the most obvious words that would occur to a viewer -- such as "woman" or "girl" for a picture of a human female -- are forbidden. The viewer is supposed to come up with something more specific. But how were these forbidden words generated? Who came up with these words? Has a human already looked at these images? That seems to defeat the supposed purpose of this image-labeling exercise. I did not find an explanation, although I did not look very hard. -- Mark Spahn
----- Original Message ----- From: William Taylor To: not_honyaku Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:34 AM Subject: Re: image labeling "game" That's really wierd! And I take it the numbers next to these names means that some people are getting really into this. Today's Top Pairs 1. DeSolantern - guest 1740 2. DeMultifunctonal - guest 1720 3. guest - DeMultifunctonal 1670 4. X - guest 1650 5. AQuach - X 1500 William Taylor On Oct 29, 7:05 pm, "Mark Spahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/?src=b > presents an interesting idea: > Making a "game" out of labeling pictures, to > improve an image search engine. > You gain points, but I don't know what use they are. > The activity can be taken as a diversion of a few minutes, > or as drudge work, like being part of a worldwide > community of monkeys with typewriters trying to > reproduce the works of Shakespeare. > -- Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Persons posting messages to not_honyaku assume all responsibility for their messages. The list owner does not review messages, and accepts no responsibility for the content of messages posted. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
