Tabouid: a Wikipedia-based word guessing game

Timothée Bernard


Abstract
We present Tabouid, a word-guessing game automatically generated from Wikipedia. Tabouid contains 10,000 (virtual) cards in English, and as many in French, covering not only words and linguistic expressions but also a variety of topics including artists, historical events or scientific concepts. Each card corresponds to a Wikipedia article, and conversely, any article could be turned into a card. A range of relatively simple NLP and machine-learning techniques are effectively integrated into a two-stage process. First, a large subset of Wikipedia articles are scored - this score estimates the difficulty, or alternatively, the playability of the page. Then, the best articles are turned into cards by selecting, for each of them, a list of banned words based on its content. We believe that the game we present is more than mere entertainment and that, furthermore, this paper has pedagogical potential.
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2020.acl-demos.4
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Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
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July
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2020
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Online
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Asli Celikyilmaz, Tsung-Hsien Wen
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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24–29
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-demos.4
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.acl-demos.4
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Timothée Bernard. 2020. Tabouid: a Wikipedia-based word guessing game. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pages 24–29, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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