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Are Eurac Research linguists really gaming during work hours?!

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Greta Franzini
04 November 2022
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Ötzit! game screen - © Image licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Eurac linguists are exploring gamified data crowdsourcing methods to engage Tyrolean citizens in linguistic and cultural heritage research. We present to you Ötzit!, our first game with a purpose (GWAP) designed to collect transcription data while teaching players how to read German Fraktur.

Greta Franzini

Greta H. Franzini is an Anglo-Italian postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Applied Linguistics at Eurac Research. A Classicist by training, she holds a Ph.D in Information Studies and Digital Humanities from University College London (UCL), and works across cultural heritage and natural language technology research. In her free time, Greta particularly enjoys sports and driving around in her historical Fiat Nuova 500 D.

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Franzini, G. Are Eurac Research linguists really gaming during work hours?! https://doi.org/10.57708/B143281732
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