Kalusa was an ad-hoc collaborative constructed language, started by Gary Shannon and contributed to by maybe a dozen to two dozen people over the course of a few months in Summer 2006. The best description of the project I know if is by David J. Peterson, in giving the language his Smiley Award.
These are data files saving sentences lost from the Kalusa corpus during an apparent automated-voting attack. Gary later modified the Kalusa software to disallow multiple votes on the same sentence from the same IP address.
The format of the files is tab-delimited, with four fields:
| Sentence number | Kalusa sentence | English gloss | CQ - correctness quotient, a weighted average of people's ranking of the sentence |
The original Kalusa software would, online, display the number of people who had voted on a sentence as well as its CQ, but this data was not included in the automatically generated corpora text files for download.
The Perl scripts I used for automating interaction with the Kalusa engine (e.g., downloading the corpus to a text file periodically, entering a batch of new sentences I'd composed offline, etc.)
Last updated July 2008
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