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Crowdsourcing, a major economic issue, is the fact that the firm outsources internal task to the crowd. It is a form of digital subcontracting for the general public. The evaluation of the participants work quality is a major issue in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Hosna Ouni , Arnaud Martin , Laetitia Gros , Mouloud Kharoune , Zoltan Miklos

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

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

Crowdsourcing platforms are a powerful and convenient means for recruiting participants in online studies and collecting data from the crowd. As information work is being more and more automated by Machine Learning algorithms, creativity…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Jonas Oppenlaender , Aku Visuri , Kristy Milland , Panos Ipeirotis , Simo Hosio

Crowdsourcing works by distributing many small tasks to large numbers of workers, yet the true potential of crowdsourcing lies in workers doing more than performing simple tasks---they can apply their experience and creativity to provide…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Thomas C. McAndrew , Elizaveta A. Guseva , James P. Bagrow

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

We study the problem of organizing a collection of objects - images, videos - into clusters, using crowdsourcing. This problem is notoriously hard for computers to do automatically, and even with crowd workers, is challenging to…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Ayush Jain , Joon Young Seo , Karan Goel , Andrew Kuznetsov , Aditya Parameswaran , Hari Sundaram

Crowd work platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk and Prolific are vital for research, yet workers' growing use of generative AI tools poses challenges. Researchers face compromised data validity as AI responses replace authentic human…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Amanda Chan , Catherine Di , Joseph Rupertus , Gary Smith , Varun Nagaraj Rao , Manoel Horta Ribeiro , Andrés Monroy-Hernández

Crowdsourcing allows running simple human intelligence tasks on a large crowd of workers, enabling solving problems for which it is difficult to formulate an algorithm or train a machine learning model in reasonable time. One of such…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Daniil Likhobaba , Daniil Fedulov , Dmitry Ustalov

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the current understanding of crowdsourcing may not be broad enough to capture the diversity of crowd work during disasters, or specific enough to highlight the unique dynamics of information…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-04-17 Kate Starbird

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

Traditionally, the term crowd was used almost exclusively in the context of people who self-organized around a common purpose, emotion or experience. Today, however, firms often refer to crowds in discussions of how collections of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-02-15 J. Prpic , P. P. Shukla , J. H. Kietzmann , I. P. McCarthy

As the use of crowdsourcing increases, it is important to think about performance optimization. For this purpose, it is possible to think about each worker as a HPU(Human Processing Unit), and to draw inspiration from performance…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Chen Cao , Zheng Liu , Lei Chen , H. V. Jagadish

Crowdsourcing markets like Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) make it possible to task people with small jobs, such as labeling images or looking up phone numbers, via a programmatic interface. MTurk tasks for processing datasets with humans…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-10-03 Adam Marcus , Eugene Wu , David Karger , Samuel Madden , Robert Miller

Due to recent advances in data collection techniques, massive amounts of data are being collected at an extremely fast pace. Also, these data are potentially unbounded. Boundless streams of data collected from sensors, equipments, and other…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-03-12 T Soni Madhulatha

Motivation: Bioinformatics is faced with a variety of problems that require human involvement. Tasks like genome annotation, image analysis, knowledge-base construction and protein structure determination all benefit from human input. In…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2013-07-01 Benjamin M. Good , Andrew I. Su

New techniques leveraging IT-mediated crowds such as Crowdsensing, Situated Crowdsourcing, Spatial Crowdsourcing, and Wearables Crowdsourcing have now materially emerged. These techniques, here termed next generation Crowdsourcing, serve to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-02-13 J. Prpic

Crowdsourcing is rapidly evolving and applied in situations where ideas, labour, opinion or expertise of large groups of people are used. Crowdsourcing is now used in various policy-making initiatives; however, this use has usually focused…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-02-12 Araz Taeihagh

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