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Crowdsourcing can solve problems that current fully automated systems cannot. Its effectiveness depends on the reliability, accuracy, and speed of the crowd workers that drive it. These objectives are frequently at odds with one another.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2014-08-29 Walter S. Lasecki , Christopher M. Homan , Jeffrey P. Bigham

Data fusion has played an important role in data mining because high-quality data is required in a lot of applications. As on-line data may be out-of-date and errors in the data may propagate with copying and referring between sources, it…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-02-03 Yunfan Chen , Lei Chen , Chen Jason Zhang

Crowdsourcing has been widely used to efficiently obtain labeled datasets for supervised learning from large numbers of human resources at low cost. However, one of the technical challenges in obtaining high-quality results from…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Ryosuke Ueda , Koh Takeuchi , Hisashi Kashima

Crowd-sourcing is a cheap and popular means of creating training and evaluation datasets for machine learning, however it poses the problem of `truth inference', as individual workers cannot be wholly trusted to provide reliable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Yuan Li , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein , Trevor Cohn

Quality improvement methods are essential to gathering high-quality crowdsourced data, both for research and industry applications. A popular and broadly applicable method is task assignment that dynamically adjusts crowd workflow…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Danula Hettiachchi , Vassilis Kostakos , Jorge Goncalves

In open-ended natural-language generation, existing text decoding methods typically struggle to produce text which is both diverse and high-quality. Greedy and beam search are known to suffer from text degeneration and linguistic diversity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Mirac Suzgun , Luke Melas-Kyriazi , Dan Jurafsky

With the rapid development of crowdsourcing platforms that aggregate the intelligence of Internet workers, crowdsourcing has been widely utilized to address problems that require human cognitive abilities. Considering great dynamics of…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Jiayang Tu , Peng Cheng , Lei Chen

Open-domain question answering (QA) is an important problem in AI and NLP that is emerging as a bellwether for progress on the generalizability of AI methods and techniques. Much of the progress in open-domain QA systems has been realized…

We describe Quizz, a gamified crowdsourcing system that simultaneously assesses the knowledge of users and acquires new knowledge from them. Quizz operates by asking users to complete short quizzes on specific topics; as a user answers the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis , Evgeniy Gabrilovich

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

There are many potential benefits to news readers accessing diverse sources. Modern news aggregators do the hard work of organizing the news, offering readers a plethora of source options, but choosing which source to read remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Philippe Laban , Chien-Sheng Wu , Lidiya Murakhovs'ka , Xiang 'Anthony' Chen , Caiming Xiong

Users often fail to formulate their complex information needs in a single query. As a consequence, they may need to scan multiple result pages or reformulate their queries, which may be a frustrating experience. Alternatively, systems can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Mohammad Aliannejadi , Hamed Zamani , Fabio Crestani , W. Bruce Croft

The distractor generation task focuses on generating incorrect but plausible options for objective questions such as fill-in-the-blank and multiple-choice questions. This task is widely utilized in educational settings across various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Elaf Alhazmi , Quan Z. Sheng , Wei Emma Zhang , Munazza Zaib , Ahoud Alhazmi

Recent advancements in conversational systems have significantly enhanced human-machine interactions across various domains. However, training these systems is challenging due to the scarcity of specialized dialogue data. Traditionally,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Heydar Soudani , Roxana Petcu , Evangelos Kanoulas , Faegheh Hasibi

Existing question answering (QA) datasets derived from electronic health records (EHR) are artificially generated and consequently fail to capture realistic physician information needs. We present Discharge Summary Clinical Questions…

Over the past decade, crowdsourcing has emerged as a cheap and efficient method of obtaining solutions to simple tasks that are difficult for computers to solve but possible for humans. The popularity and promise of crowdsourcing markets…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-11-27 Aleksandrs Slivkins , Jennifer Wortman Vaughan

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

Misinformation about critical issues such as climate change and vaccine safety is oftentimes amplified on online social and search platforms. The crowdsourcing of content credibility assessment by laypeople has been proposed as one strategy…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Md Momen Bhuiyan , Amy X. Zhang , Connie Moon Sehat , Tanushree Mitra

We focus on multiple-choice question answering (QA) tasks in subject areas such as science, where we require both broad background knowledge and the facts from the given subject-area reference corpus. In this work, we explore simple yet…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Xiaoman Pan , Kai Sun , Dian Yu , Jianshu Chen , Heng Ji , Claire Cardie , Dong Yu

In the last decade, crowdsourcing has become a popular method for conducting quantitative empirical studies in human-machine interaction. The remote work on a given task in crowdworking settings suits the character of typical…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Annalena Aicher , Stefan Hillmann , Isabel Feustel , Thilo Michael , Sebastian Möller , Wolfgang Minker