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Crowdsourcing is a popular means to obtain labeled data at moderate costs, for example for tweets, which can then be used in text mining tasks. To alleviate the problem of low-quality labels in this context, multiple human factors have been…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Stefan Räbiger , Yücel Saygın , Myra Spiliopoulou

Existing works for truth discovery in categorical data usually assume that claimed values are mutually exclusive and only one among them is correct. However, many claimed values are not mutually exclusive even for functional predicates due…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Woohwan Jung , Younghoon Kim , Kyuseok Shim

Crowdsourcing has become an efficient paradigm for performing large scale tasks. Truth discovery and incentive mechanism are fundamentally important for the crowdsourcing system. Many truth discovery methods and incentive mechanisms for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Lingyun Jiang , Xiaofu Niu , Jia Xu , Dejun Yang , Lijie Xu

Crowdsourcing platforms enable companies to propose tasks to a large crowd of users. The workers receive a compensation for their work according to the serious of the tasks they managed to accomplish. The evaluation of the quality of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Jean-Christophe Dubois , Laetitia Gros , Mouloud Kharoune , Yolande Le Gall , Arnaud Martin , Zoltán Miklós , Hosna Ouni

Objective: This research explores using crowdsourcing for software usability evaluation. Background: Usability studies are essential for designing user-friendly software, but traditional methods are often costly and time-consuming.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Muhammad Nasir

Learning representation has been proven to be helpful in numerous machine learning tasks. The success of the majority of existing representation learning approaches often requires a large amount of consistent and noise-free labels. However,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Guowei Xu , Wenbiao Ding , Jiliang Tang , Songfan Yang , Gale Yan Huang , Zitao Liu

Crowdsourcing information constitutes an important aspect of human-in-the-loop learning for researchers across multiple disciplines such as AI, HCI, and social science. While using crowdsourced data for subjective tasks is not new,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Ramya Srinivasan , Ajay Chander

Samples with ground truth labels may not always be available in numerous domains. While learning from crowdsourcing labels has been explored, existing models can still fail in the presence of sparse, unreliable, or diverging annotations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Mani Sotoodeh , Li Xiong , Joyce C. Ho

The data that underlies automated methods in computer vision and machine learning, such as image retrieval and fine-grained recognition, often comes from crowdsourcing. In contexts that rely on the intrinsic motivation of users, we seek to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Abby Stylianou , Michelle Brachman , Albatool Wazzan , Samuel Black , Richard Souvenir

In crowdsourcing markets, there are two different type jobs, i.e. homogeneous jobs and heterogeneous jobs, which need to be allocated to workers. Incentive mechanisms are essential to attract extensive user participating for achieving good…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-23 Jiajun Sun

Popular crowdsourcing techniques mostly focus on evaluating workers' labeling quality before adjusting their weights during label aggregation. Recently, another cohort of models regard crowdsourced annotations as incomplete tensors and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Ching-Yun Ko , Rui Lin , Shu Li , Ngai Wong

Social biases based on gender, race, etc. have been shown to pollute machine learning (ML) pipeline predominantly via biased training datasets. Crowdsourcing, a popular cost-effective measure to gather labeled training datasets, is not…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Bhavya Ghai , Q. Vera Liao , Yunfeng Zhang , Klaus Mueller

Task selection (picking an appropriate labeling task) and worker selection (assigning the labeling task to a suitable worker) are two major challenges in task assignment for crowdsourcing. Recently, worker selection has been successfully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-07-28 Hao Zhang , Masashi Sugiyama

Whether Large Language Models (LLMs) can outperform crowdsourcing on the data annotation task is attracting interest recently. Some works verified this issue with the average performance of individual crowd workers and LLM workers on some…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Jiyi Li

We consider the $M$-ary classification problem via crowdsourcing, where crowd workers respond to simple binary questions and the answers are aggregated via decision fusion. The workers have a reject option to skip answering a question when…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Baocheng Geng , Qunwei Li , Pramod K. Varshney

The success of software crowdsourcing depends on active and trustworthy pool of worker supply. The uncertainty of crowd workers' behaviors makes it challenging to predict workers' success and plan accordingly. In a competitive crowdsourcing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Hamid Shamszare , Razieh Saremi , Sanam Jena

Entity resolution is central to data integration and data cleaning. Algorithmic approaches have been improving in quality, but remain far from perfect. Crowdsourcing platforms offer a more accurate but expensive (and slow) way to bring…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-08-10 Jiannan Wang , Tim Kraska , Michael J. Franklin , Jianhua Feng

We investigate the design of mechanisms to incentivize high quality in crowdsourcing environments with strategic agents, when entry is an endogenous, strategic choice. Modeling endogenous entry in crowdsourcing is important because there is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Arpita Ghosh , Preston McAfee

Learning-assisted hyper-heuristics can select among dispatching rules while preserving the feasibility and interpretability of constructive Job Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP) heuristics. Their main computational cost lies in label…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Junhao Wei , Yanxiao Li , Yifu Zhao , Zhenhong Peng , Baili Lu , Dexing Yao , Haochen Li , Qinbin He , Sio-Kei Im , Yapeng Wang , Xu Yang

Rank aggregation based on pairwise comparisons over a set of items has a wide range of applications. Although considerable research has been devoted to the development of rank aggregation algorithms, one basic question is how to efficiently…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-22 Xi Chen , Kevin Jiao , Qihang Lin