DRAFT GUIDELINES FOR REVIEWING UPLOADED TEXTS A proposal to improve the Review Sentences paragraph currently found on this page: https://common-voice.github.io/sentence-collector/#/how-to [Edited to include comments up to 8 July 2019] Make sure the uploaded text meets the following criteria: It…

@nukeador While this particular topic is about Sentence Collector, there are also guidelines for recording validation here , so I was really referring to both in my previous message.

[image] Michael_Maggs: Are posts on Discourse locked after a certain time? They are, to prevent spam - but I’ve turned this and the other guidelines topic into wikis, so you should be able to edit them once again.

@Jean , I’ve edited the guidelines to make it clear that the uploaded texts don’t need to be “full sentences” (eg including a verb) provided that they make sense, and are grammatically correct and self-contained. I’ve suggested that “Any phrase that you could imagine being used as a caption to an i…

is a set of words that is complete that itself typically containing a subject and a predicate conveying a statement,question ,exclamanation,or command…

[image] rupertoapiong: typically containing a subject and a predicate conveying a statement,question ,exclamanation,or command… Indeed. But we don’t need to bother volunteers with any of that complexity, especially as we don’t actually want to restrict to ‘sentences’ at all.

[image] Michael_Maggs: Any phrase that you could imagine being used as a caption to an image should be OK Could you give an example? [image] Michael_Maggs: she said, after a pause. [Not grammatically correct and self contained. Appears to be only part of a sentence as it starts with a l…

[image] daniel.abzakh: Why does it matter if the sentence is meaningful, what exactly the AI is learning? Here it’s important to note that humans will be reading these sentences, so if they are meaningless, we suspect people will disengage.

[image] daniel.abzakh: Why does it matter if the sentence is meaningful, what exactly the AI is learning? See also the reasons given by @Jean , here: Validating meaningless sentences in the Sentence Collector?

[image] daniel.abzakh: Could you give an example? Some simple examples: The giant dinosaurs of the Triassic. Sheet lightning. Fun with flags. The lure of the wild. Oh no, not again! The end of the rainbow. An example of running stitch. Under the arches. Sorry - can’t quite understand what …

@Michael_Maggs [image] daniel.abzakh: Any phrase that you could imagine being used as a caption to an image should be OK It’s not a concern, rather a curiosity to understand what you meant by captioning an image with a phrase, the way you put it is interesting.

Discussion of new guidelines for uploaded sentence validation

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Michael_Maggs (Michael Maggs) July 9, 2019, 11:50am 30

I don’t know about other languages but I do know that in English readers find it extremely difficult to read nonsense texts accurately. Readers stumble over the words, with very high rates of error.

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Discussion of new guidelines for uploaded sentence validation

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