Word Ladders: A Mobile Application for Semantic Data Collection
This tool addresses data collection needs for researchers in linguistics and cognitive science, but it is incremental as it builds on existing methods for gathering semantic data.
The paper introduces Word Ladders, a mobile app designed to collect semantic word relation data for linguistic research, aiming to support NLP tasks and cognitive science investigations.
Word Ladders is a free mobile application for Android and iOS, developed for collecting linguistic data, specifically lists of words related to each other through semantic relations of categorical inclusion, within the Abstraction project (ERC-2021-STG-101039777). We hereby provide an overview of Word Ladders, explaining its game logic, motivation and expected results and applications to nlp tasks as well as to the investigation of cognitive scientific open questions