A game with a purpose for annotating Greek folk music in a web content management system

Author

Giouvanakis, Emmanouil ; Kotropoulos, Constantine ; Theodoridis, Antonis ; Pitas, Ioannis

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf., Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

fYear

2013

fDate

1-3 July 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

A web content management system (Web CMS) has been developed to host a corpus of 405 folk songs for media sharing. It is based on Drupal 7. Exploring various modules, the system offers multiple functionalities, including user registration, layered information about each song in different pages, similar content search, friendship relationships between the registered users, favorite lists, etc. Users can visit song pages, listen to the songs, and provide feedback. In addition to the Web CMS, a game with a purpose (GWAP), called Erasitechnis GWAP, has been designed and deployed on Facebook as an enjoyable way encouraging users to enroll and provide music annotations. Erasitechnis GWAP is a combined approach of existing games with a purpose, which focuses on tagging Greek folk music promoting less frequent tags. By doing so, descriptive tags are collected enabling the creation of a fully annotated dataset, which is exploited to train recommendation or autotagging systems.

Keywords

Internet; computer games; content management; music; recommender systems; Drupal 7; Erasitechnis GWAP; Greek folk music annotation; Greek folk music tagging; Web CMS; Web content management system; autotagging system; content search; descriptive tags; folk songs; friendship relationships; game with a purpose; layered information; media sharing; music annotations; recommendation system; user registration; Content management; Databases; Facebook; Games; Multimedia communication; Tagging; Vectors; Web content management systems; computational ethnomusicology; games with a purpose; tagging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Signal Processing (DSP), 2013 18th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Fira

ISSN

1546-1874

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDSP.2013.6622715

Filename

6622715