GUM Survey Results - 2017

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In July 2017 we ran a public survey about GUM usage and user preferences regarding old and new genres in the GUM corpus. Below we share some of the aggregated results from 24 responses we received, as well as the decision for new genres starting in Fall 2017.

Results

  1. Do you know the GUM corpus and have you used it?
  2. How would you rank the usefulness of the current genres in GUM?
    (points awarded: 1 for first place, 1/2 for second, 1/3 for third, 1/4 for fourth)
  3. How would you rank the priority of adding these possible new genres?
    (points awarded: sum(1/#place) for each placement, e.g. 1/2 point for a single second place ranking)
  4. How important is it to keep GUM under a 100% Creative Commons license?

The new genres for GUM 2017

The survey results showed that keeping a (preferably single) open license framework is important. The split vote between fan-fiction and other public domain fiction, as well as Academic - ACL and Misc suggested that, taken together these are desirable coarse text types.

Taken together with ease of availability and licensing possibilities, the winners are...

Thanks to everyone who participated in the survey!

We look forward to releasing data in the new genres early in 2018