Wikitrivia

(not a good name)

The dream

The plan

  • Scrape Wikipedia
  • Use NLP to find good questions
  • Use WordNet to create good filler lies
  • Build a web app to serve it up well

The result

  • Scrape Wikipedia
  • Use NLP to find poor questions
  • Use WordNet to create bad filler lies
  • Build a web app to serve it up well enough

NLP

  • Getting Wikipedia data was easy
  • Identifying parts of speech was good
  • Coming up with a good algorithm was hard:
    • Try to blank out unusual words
    • Try to blank out proper vs. improper nouns
    • Try to create a classifier

Web app

  • MEAN stack
  • Socket.io + Angular-ui-router is awesome
  • Bootstrap isn't great for games
  • It works... mostly...

DEMO

Our articles:

Tony Bennett

Python (programming language)

Henry V, Duke of Carinthia

Scabbling

Globe of the Great Southwest

Ukrainian Women's Volleyball Super League

Final thoughts

  • NLP was fun to learn
  • Unexpected characteristics of a "good" question
  • Socket.io + Angular-ui-router is awesome
  • Question generating code on GitHub

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