Community Embraces New Word Game at Mid-Year Play Day This past Sunday, families at Takoma Park’s Seventh Annual Mid-Year Play Day had the opportunity to experience OtherWordly for the first time. Our educational language game drew curious children and parents to our table throughout the afternoon. Words in Space Several children gathered around our iPads […]
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Current Research
The Small World of English
76% of random English word pairs connect in 7 hops or fewer. Analysis of the Linguabase’s semantic network structure and its implications for word game design.
Linguabase Technical Overview
1.5 million words, 100 million relationships. The hybrid approach combining human curation with LLM-assisted validation.
NSF SBIR Phase I
$274,990 grant for automated content generation, appropriateness filters, and cognitive impact evaluation. OtherWordly LLC with University of Wisconsin-Madison.
NSF I-Corps Customer Discovery
$20,000 supplement for Lean Startup methodology. 250+ face-to-face interviews testing hypotheses about word game players. Led directly to In Other Words.
Upcoming
Culturally Appropriate Semantic Game Content
Research on adapting semantic networks for diverse cultural contexts. From conference talks and ongoing work.
Research on adapting semantic networks for diverse cultural contexts. From conference talks and ongoing work.
Historical
NSF XSEDE Supercomputer Grant
2.3 million compute hours for foundational NLP processing. Early Linguabase development using LDA topic modeling across large text corpora.
Archive
Earlier research on informal learning, information visualization, and health informatics is available in the blog archive.