KnowYourNyms? A Game of Semantic Relationships

International audienceSemantic relation knowledge is crucial for natural language understanding. We introduce KnowYourNyms?, a web-based game for learning semantic relations. While providing users with an engaging experience, the application collects large amounts of data that can be used to improve semantic relation classifiers. The data also broadly informs us of how people perceive the relationships between words, providing useful insights for research in psychology and linguistics