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Evaluating workers is a critical aspect of any crowdsourcing system. In this paper, we devise techniques for evaluating workers by finding confidence intervals on their error rates. Unlike prior work, we focus on "conciseness"---that is,…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-11-14 Manas Joglekar , Hector Garcia-Molina , Aditya Parameswaran

Crowdsourcing has been proven to be an effective and efficient tool to annotate large datasets. User annotations are often noisy, so methods to combine the annotations to produce reliable estimates of the ground truth are necessary. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-07-21 Pablo G. Moreno , Yee Whye Teh , Fernando Perez-Cruz , Antonio Artés-Rodríguez

Crowdsourcing platforms offer a way to label data by aggregating answers of multiple unqualified workers. We introduce a \textit{simple} and \textit{budget efficient} crowdsourcing method named Proxy Crowdsourcing (PCS). PCS collects…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Gal Cohensius , Omer Ben Porat , Reshef Meir , Ofra Amir

Some complex problems, such as image tagging and natural language processing, are very challenging for computers, where even state-of-the-art technology is yet able to provide satisfactory accuracy. Therefore, rather than relying solely on…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Xuan Liu , Meiyu Lu , Beng Chin Ooi , Yanyan Shen , Sai Wu , Meihui Zhang

As a means of human-based computation, crowdsourcing has been widely used to annotate large-scale unlabeled datasets. One of the obvious challenges is how to aggregate these possibly noisy labels provided by a set of heterogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Xuan Wei , Daniel Dajun Zeng , Junming Yin

Recently, there has been a burst in the number of research projects on human computation via crowdsourcing. Multiple choice (or labeling) questions could be referred to as a common type of problem which is solved by this approach. As an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-09-04 Jafar Muhammadi , Hamid Reza Rabiee , Abbas Hosseini

We propose a streaming algorithm for the binary classification of data based on crowdsourcing. The algorithm learns the competence of each labeller by comparing her labels to those of other labellers on the same tasks and uses this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-02-24 Thomas Bonald , Richard Combes

Acquiring fine-grained object detection annotations in unconstrained images is time-consuming, expensive, and prone to noise, especially in crowdsourcing scenarios. Most prior object detection methods assume accurate annotations; A few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Zhi Qin Tan , Olga Isupova , Gustavo Carneiro , Xiatian Zhu , Yunpeng Li

Crowdsourcing platforms offer a practical solution to the problem of affordably annotating large datasets for training supervised classifiers. Unfortunately, poor worker performance frequently threatens to compromise annotation reliability,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Liyue Zhao , Yu Zhang , Gita Sukthankar

Many computer scientists use the aggregated answers of online workers to represent ground truth. Prior work has shown that aggregation methods such as majority voting are effective for measuring relatively objective features. For subjective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Jiele Wu , Chau-Wai Wong , Xinyan Zhao , Xianpeng Liu

Crowdsourcing is an online outsourcing mode which can solve the current machine learning algorithm's urge need for massive labeled data. Requester posts tasks on crowdsourcing platforms, which employ online workers over the Internet to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Guangyang Han , Sufang Li , Runmin Wang , Chunming Wu

Mobile crowdsourcing refers to systems where the completion of tasks necessarily requires physical movement of crowdworkers in an on-demand workforce. Evidence suggests that in such systems, tasks often get assigned to crowdworkers who…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Ralf Bruns , Jeremias Dötterl , Jürgen Dunkel , Sascha Ossowski

Crowdwork often entails tackling cognitively-demanding and time-consuming tasks. Crowdsourcing can be used for complex annotation tasks, from medical imaging to geospatial data, and such data powers sensitive applications, such as health…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Akira Matsui , Emilio Ferrara , Fred Morstatter , Andres Abeliuk , Aram Galstyan

Today mobile crowdsourcing platforms invite users to provide anonymous reviews about service experiences, yet many reviews are found biased to be extremely positive or negative. The existing methods find it difficult to learn from biased…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Shugang Hao , Lingjie Duan

Crowdsourcing-based content moderation is a platform that hosts content moderation tasks for crowd workers to review user submissions (e.g. text, images and videos) and make decisions regarding the admissibility of the posted content, along…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Sainath Sanga , Venkata Sriram Siddhardh Nadendla

We introduce the problem of Task Assignment and Sequencing (TAS), which adds the timeline perspective to expert crowdsourcing optimization. Expert crowdsourcing involves macrotasks, like document writing, product design, or web development,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-18 Heinz Schmitz , Ioanna Lykourentzou

Crowdsourcing is a mechanism by means of which groups of people are able to execute a task by sharing ideas, efforts and resources. Thanks to the online technologies, crowdsourcing has become in the last decade an even more utilized process…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-03-16 Daniele Vilone

In this paper, we study a novel spatial crowdsourcing system where the workers' time availabilities and their spatial locations are known a priori. Consequently, the tasks assignment to workers is performed not only based on the current…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-08-03 Faranak Davoodi

Crowd-sourcing has become a popular means of acquiring labeled data for a wide variety of tasks where humans are more accurate than computers, e.g., labeling images, matching objects, or analyzing sentiment. However, relying solely on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-23 Barzan Mozafari , Purnamrita Sarkar , Michael J. Franklin , Michael I. Jordan , Samuel Madden

Consider designing an effective crowdsourcing system for an $M$-ary classification task. Crowd workers complete simple binary microtasks whose results are aggregated to give the final result. We consider the novel scenario where workers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Qunwei Li , Aditya Vempaty , Lav R. Varshney , Pramod K. Varshney