According to the Phrase Detectives 'about us' page the Phase Detectives game has been developed as a fun way for people to collaborate in creating large linguistic resources that will be used to further language technology used on the Internet, in business and on home computers. It is an example of a "Game With A Purpose" or GWAP, where a gaming environment is used for completing tasks on a scale not possible in more traditional ways. The data collected from the game is compiled to create an annotated corpus (a collection of files that have been worked on enough by humans as to be useful for computational purposes). This methodology has been referred to as human computation or the Wisdom of the Crowds, where large groups of people collaboratively come up with good answers.