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Active Learning (AL) is a machine learning technique where the model selectively queries the most informative data points for labeling by human experts. Integrating AL with crowdsourcing leverages crowd diversity to enhance data labeling…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Shaojie Hou , Yuandou Wang , Zhiming Zhao

We consider a class of variable effort human annotation tasks in which the number of labels required per item can greatly vary (e.g., finding all faces in an image, named entities in a text, bird calls in an audio recording, etc.). In such…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Danula Hettiachchi , Mike Schaekermann , Tristan McKinney , Matthew Lease

Emotion classifiers traditionally predict discrete emotions. However, emotion expressions are often subjective, thus requiring a method to handle subjective labels. We explore the use of crowdsourcing to acquire reliable soft-target labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Peter Washington , Onur Cezmi Mutlu , Emilie Leblanc , Aaron Kline , Cathy Hou , Brianna Chrisman , Nate Stockham , Kelley Paskov , Catalin Voss , Nick Haber , Dennis Wall

Crowdsourcing is widely used to create data for common natural language understanding tasks. Despite the importance of these datasets for measuring and refining model understanding of language, there has been little focus on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Nikita Nangia , Saku Sugawara , Harsh Trivedi , Alex Warstadt , Clara Vania , Samuel R. Bowman

Annotation quality and quantity positively affect the learning performance of sequence labeling, a vital task in Natural Language Processing. Hiring domain experts to annotate a corpus is very costly in terms of money and time.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Nasim Sabetpour , Adithya Kulkarni , Sihong Xie , Qi Li

The process of gathering ground truth data through human annotation is a major bottleneck in the use of information extraction methods for populating the Semantic Web. Crowdsourcing-based approaches are gaining popularity in the attempt to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Anca Dumitrache , Oana Inel , Benjamin Timmermans , Carlos Ortiz , Robert-Jan Sips , Lora Aroyo , Chris Welty

Since data is the fuel that drives machine learning models, and access to labeled data is generally expensive, semi-supervised methods are constantly popular. They enable the acquisition of large datasets without the need for too many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Jędrzej Kozal , Michał Woźniak

Crowd sequential annotations can be an efficient and cost-effective way to build large datasets for sequence labeling. Different from tagging independent instances, for crowd sequential annotations the quality of label sequence relies on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Xiaolei Lu , Tommy W. S. Chow

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

To quickly obtain new labeled data, we can choose crowdsourcing as an alternative way at lower cost in a short time. But as an exchange, crowd annotations from non-experts may be of lower quality than those from experts. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-17 YaoSheng Yang , Meishan Zhang , Wenliang Chen , Wei Zhang , Haofen Wang , Min Zhang

Crowdsourcing provides a popular paradigm for data collection at scale. We study the problem of selecting subsets of workers from a given worker pool to maximize the accuracy under a budget constraint. One natural question is whether we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-02-04 Hongwei Li , Qiang Liu

Density estimation is one of the most widely used methods for crowd counting in which a deep learning model learns from head-annotated crowd images to estimate crowd density in unseen images. Typically, the learning performance of the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Muhammad Asif Khan , Hamid Menouar , Ridha Hamila

Many Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems use annotated corpora for training and evaluation. However, labeled data is often costly to obtain and scaling annotation projects is difficult, which is why annotation tasks are often…

In the domains of dataset construction and crowdsourcing, a notable challenge is to aggregate labels from a heterogeneous set of labelers, each of whom is potentially an expert in some subset of tasks (and less reliable in others). To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Surin Ahn , Ayfer Ozgur , Mert Pilanci

Annotating multi-class instances is a crucial task in the field of machine learning. Unfortunately, identifying the correct class label from a long sequence of candidate labels is time-consuming and laborious. To alleviate this problem, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Meng Wei , Zhongnian Li , Yong Zhou , Qiaoyu Guo , Xinzheng Xu

Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) are people that have a strong influence and their opinions are listened to by people when making important decisions. Crowdsourcing provides an efficient and cost-effective means to gather data for the KOL finding…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Hossein A. Rahmani , Jie Yang

Annotating data for sensitive labels (e.g., disease, smoking) poses a potential threats to individual privacy in many real-world scenarios. To cope with this problem, we propose a novel setting to protect privacy of each instance, namely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Zhongnian Li , Meng Wei , Peng Ying , Tongfeng Sun , Xinzheng Xu

This paper models the crowdsourced labeling/classification problem as a sparsely encoded source coding problem, where each query answer, regarded as a code bit, is the XOR of a small number of labels, as source information bits. In this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-03 James Chin-Jen Pang , Hessam Mahdavifar , S. Sandeep Pradhan

We introduce an unsupervised approach to efficiently discover the underlying features in a data set via crowdsourcing. Our queries ask crowd members to articulate a feature common to two out of three displayed examples. In addition we also…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-04-02 James Y. Zou , Kamalika Chaudhuri , Adam Tauman Kalai

Supervised classification heavily depends on datasets annotated by humans. However, in subjective tasks such as toxicity classification, these annotations often exhibit low agreement among raters. Annotations have commonly been aggregated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Negar Mokhberian , Myrl G. Marmarelis , Frederic R. Hopp , Valerio Basile , Fred Morstatter , Kristina Lerman