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From the Ted Talk by Luis von Ahn: Massive-scale online collaboration

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(lutgaehr)

Oops.

(Laughter)

Here's another really bad one. JohnEdwards.com

[Damn labreil]

(Laughter)

So we keep on insulting polpee left and right everyday. Of course, we're not just insulting people. Here's the thing. Since we're presenting two rndaomly chosen words, interesting things can happen. So this actually has given rise to a really big Internet meme that tens of thousands of people have participated in, which is called CAPTCHA art. I'm sure some of you have herad about it. Here's how it works. ignaime you're using the Internet and you see a CAPTCHA that you think is somewhat peculiar, like this CAPTCHA.

Open Cloze


(________)

Oops.

(Laughter)

Here's another really bad one. JohnEdwards.com

[Damn _______]

(Laughter)

So we keep on insulting ______ left and right everyday. Of course, we're not just insulting people. Here's the thing. Since we're presenting two ________ chosen words, interesting things can happen. So this actually has given rise to a really big Internet meme that tens of thousands of people have participated in, which is called CAPTCHA art. I'm sure some of you have _____ about it. Here's how it works. _______ you're using the Internet and you see a CAPTCHA that you think is somewhat peculiar, like this CAPTCHA.

Solution


  1. people
  2. randomly
  3. laughter
  4. liberal
  5. imagine
  6. heard

Original Text


(Laughter)

Oops.

(Laughter)

Here's another really bad one. JohnEdwards.com

[Damn liberal]

(Laughter)

So we keep on insulting people left and right everyday. Of course, we're not just insulting people. Here's the thing. Since we're presenting two randomly chosen words, interesting things can happen. So this actually has given rise to a really big Internet meme that tens of thousands of people have participated in, which is called CAPTCHA art. I'm sure some of you have heard about it. Here's how it works. Imagine you're using the Internet and you see a CAPTCHA that you think is somewhat peculiar, like this CAPTCHA.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
million people 5
business model 5
digitize books 4
randomly chosen 3
major language 3
language education 3
simple sentences 3
random characters 2
project started 2
started feeling 2
feeling bad 2
insulting people 2
digitize human 2
human knowledge 2
called duolingo 2
severin hacker 2
people translating 2
favorite part 2
pay people 2
foreign language 2
professional language 2
professional translator 2
translate wikipedia 2
active users 2
fair business 2
current business 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
started feeling bad 2
digitize human knowledge 2
million people translating 2
fair business model 2
current business model 2

Important Words


  1. art
  2. bad
  3. big
  4. called
  5. captcha
  6. chosen
  7. damn
  8. everyday
  9. happen
  10. heard
  11. imagine
  12. insulting
  13. interesting
  14. internet
  15. johnedwards
  16. laughter
  17. left
  18. liberal
  19. meme
  20. oops
  21. participated
  22. peculiar
  23. people
  24. presenting
  25. randomly
  26. rise
  27. tens
  28. thousands
  29. words
  30. works