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Sourcing processes are discussed at a high abstraction level. A dedicated terminology is developed concerning general aspects of sourcing. The term sourcement is coined to denote a building block for sourcing. No- tions of allocation,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-07-26 J. A. Bergstra , G. P. A. J. Delen , S. F. M. van Vlijmen

A prominent approach to build datasets for training task-oriented bots is crowd-based paraphrasing. Current approaches, however, assume the crowd would naturally provide diverse paraphrases or focus only on lexical diversity. In this WiP we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Jorge Ramírez , Auday Berro , Marcos Baez , Boualem Benatallah , Fabio Casati

Crowdsourcing platforms, such as Stack Overflow, have changed and impacted the software development practice. In these platforms, developers share and reuse their software development and programming experience. Therefore, a plethora of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Rabe Abdalkareem

Worker selection is a significant and challenging issue in crowdsourcing systems. Such selection is usually based on an assessment of the reputation of the individual workers participating in such systems. However, assessing the credibility…

Linguistically diverse datasets are critical for training and evaluating robust machine learning systems, but data collection is a costly process that often requires experts. Crowdsourcing the process of paraphrase generation is an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Youxuan Jiang , Jonathan K. Kummerfeld , Walter S. Lasecki

Modern machine learning algorithms need large datasets to be trained. Crowdsourcing has become a popular approach to label large datasets in a shorter time as well as at a lower cost comparing to that needed for a limited number of experts.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Alexey Drutsa , Viktoriya Farafonova , Valentina Fedorova , Olga Megorskaya , Evfrosiniya Zerminova , Olga Zhilinskaya

Nowadays there are a lot of creative and innovative ideas of business start-ups or various projects starting from a novel or music album and finishing with some innovative goods or website that makes our life better and easier.…

General Economics · Economics 2021-03-11 A. R. Baghirzade , B. Kushbakov

Existing research in crowdsourcing has investigated how to recommend tasks to workers based on which task the workers have already completed, referred to as {\em implicit feedback}. We, on the other hand, investigate the task recommendation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Habibur Rahman , Lucas Joppa , Senjuti Basu Roy

Crowdsourcing offers a practical method for ranking and scoring large amounts of items. To investigate the algorithms and incentives that can be used in crowdsourcing quality evaluations, we built CrowdGrader, a tool that lets students…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-08-27 Luca de Alfaro , Michael Shavlovsky

Crowdsourced data supports real-time decision-making but faces challenges like misinformation, errors, and contributor power concentration. This study systematically examines trust management practices across platforms categorised as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Iffat Gheyas , Muhammad Rizwan Asghar , Steve Schneider , Alan Woodward

Fact-checking is one of the effective solutions in fighting online misinformation. However, traditional fact-checking is a process requiring scarce expert human resources, and thus does not scale well on social media because of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Mohammed Saeed , Nicolas Traub , Maelle Nicolas , Gianluca Demartini , Paolo Papotti

Aggregating responses from crowd workers is a fundamental task in the process of crowdsourcing. In cases where a few experts are overwhelmed by a large number of non-experts, most answer aggregation algorithms such as the majority voting…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Yasushi Kawase , Yuko Kuroki , Atsushi Miyauchi

We present and analyze results from a pilot study that explores how crowdsourcing can be used in the process of generating distractors (incorrect answer choices) in multiple-choice concept inventories (conceptual tests of understanding). To…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Travis Scheponik , Enis Golaszewski , Geoffrey Herman , Spencer Offenberger , Linda Oliva , Peter A. H. Peterson , Alan T. Sherman

The online communities available on the Web have shown to be significantly interactive and capable of collectively solving difficult tasks. Nevertheless, it is still a challenge to decide how a task should be dispatched through the network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-07-28 Besmira Nushi , Omar Alonso , Martin Hentschel , Vasileios Kandylas

Since its emergence roughly a decade ago, microtask crowdsourcing has been attracting a heterogeneous set of workers from all over the globe. This paper sets out to explore the characteristics of the international crowd workforce and offers…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Lisa Posch , Arnim Bleier , Fabian Flöck , Clemens M. Lechner , Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda , Denis Helic , Markus Strohmaier

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

The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has sparked much interest in creating LLM-based digital populations that can be applied to many applications such as social simulation, crowdsourcing, marketing, and recommendation systems. A…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Ryan Feng Lin , Keyu Tian , Hanming Zheng , Congjing Zhang , Li Zeng , Shuai Huang

Crowdsourcing systems accomplish large tasks with scale and speed by breaking work down into independent parts. However, many types of complex creative work, such as fiction writing, have remained out of reach for crowds because work is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-11-09 Joy Kim , Sarah Sterman , Allegra Argent Beal Cohen , Michael S. Bernstein

Crowdsourcing is a multidisciplinary research area including disciplines like artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, database, and social science. To facilitate cooperation across disciplines, reproducibility is a crucial…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Ruochen Jiang , Jiannan Wang

Crowdsourcing has become a popular method for collecting labeled training data. However, in many practical scenarios traditional labeling can be difficult for crowdworkers (for example, if the data is high-dimensional or unintuitive, or the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-14 Tom Hope , Dafna Shahaf