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Crowdsourcing platforms use various truth discovery algorithms to aggregate annotations from multiple labelers. In an online setting, however, the main challenge is to decide whether to ask for more annotations for each item to efficiently…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Reshef Meir , Viet-An Nguyen , Xu Chen , Jagdish Ramakrishnan , Udi Weinsberg

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 through crowdsourcing draws incremental attention, which relies on an effective selection scheme given a pool of workers. Existing methods propose to select workers based on their performance on tasks with ground truth, while two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Yushi Sun , Jiachuan Wang , Peng Cheng , Libin Zheng , Lei Chen , Jian Yin

Crowd scene analysis has received a lot of attention recently due to the wide variety of applications, for instance, forensic science, urban planning, surveillance and security. In this context, a challenging task is known as crowd…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Rodolfo Quispe , Darwin Ttito , Adín Ramírez Rivera , Helio Pedrini

Recent work has demonstrated the viability of using crowdsourcing as a tool for evaluating the truthfulness of public statements. Under certain conditions such as: (1) having a balanced set of workers with different backgrounds and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Michael Soprano , Kevin Roitero , David La Barbera , Davide Ceolin , Damiano Spina , Stefano Mizzaro , Gianluca Demartini

As acquiring reliable ground-truth labels is usually costly, or infeasible, crowdsourcing and aggregation of noisy human annotations is the typical resort. Aggregating subjective labels, though, may amplify individual biases, particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Gabriel Singer , Samuel Gruffaz , Olivier Vo Van , Nicolas Vayatis , Argyris Kalogeratos

Crowd-sourcing is an increasingly popular tool for image analysis in animal ecology. Computer vision methods that can utilize crowd-sourced annotations can help scale up analysis further. In this work we study the potential to do so on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Justin Kay , Catherine M. Foley , Tom Hart

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

HCI increasingly employs Machine Learning and Image Recognition, in particular for visual analysis of user interfaces (UIs). A popular way for obtaining human-labeled training data is Crowdsourcing, typically using the quality control…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Maxim Bakaev , Sebastian Heil , Martin Gaedke

Traditional supervised learning requires ground truth labels for the training data, whose collection can be difficult in many cases. Recently, crowdsourcing has established itself as an efficient labeling solution through resorting to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Ye Shi , Shao-Yuan Li , Sheng-Jun Huang

In machine learning, "ground truth" refers to the assumed correct labels used to train and evaluate models. However, the foundational "ground truth" paradigm rests on a positivistic fallacy that treats human disagreement as technical noise…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Sheza Munir , Benjamin Mah , Krisha Kalsi , Shivani Kapania , Julian Posada , Edith Law , Ding Wang , Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

FrameNet is a computational linguistics resource composed of semantic frames, high-level concepts that represent the meanings of words. In this paper, we present an approach to gather frame disambiguation annotations in sentences using a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Anca Dumitrache , Lora Aroyo , Chris Welty

Truthfulness judgments are a fundamental step in the process of fighting misinformation, as they are crucial to train and evaluate classifiers that automatically distinguish true and false statements. Usually such judgments are made by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Kevin Roitero , Michael Soprano , Shaoyang Fan , Damiano Spina , Stefano Mizzaro , Gianluca Demartini

Crowdsourcing has emerged as a prevalent method for mitigating the risks of correctness and security in outsourced cloud computing. This process involves an aggregator distributing tasks, collecting responses, and aggregating outcomes from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Xuanming Liu , Xinpeng Yang , Yinghao Wang , Xun Zhang , Xiaohu Yang

With the development of mobile social networks, more and more crowdsourced data are generated on the Web or collected from real-world sensing. The fragment, heterogeneous, and noisy nature of online/offline crowdsourced data, however, makes…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Bin Guo , Huihui Chen , Yan Liu , Chao Chen , Qi Han , Zhiwen Yu

Human-annotated data plays a critical role in the fairness of AI systems, including those that deal with life-altering decisions or moderating human-created web/social media content. Conventionally, annotator disagreements are resolved…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya , Sarah Luger , Saloni Poddar , Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh , Christopher M. Homan

Nowadays, crowd sensing becomes increasingly more popular due to the ubiquitous usage of mobile devices. However, the quality of such human-generated sensory data varies significantly among different users. To better utilize sensory data,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Yaliang Li , Houping Xiao , Zhan Qin , Chenglin Miao , Lu Su , Jing Gao , Kui Ren , Bolin Ding

Evaluating the truthfulness of online content is critical for combating misinformation. This study examines the efficiency and effectiveness of crowdsourced truthfulness assessments through a comparative analysis of two approaches: one…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Kevin Roitero , Dustin Wright , Michael Soprano , Isabelle Augenstein , Stefano Mizzaro

Recently, the misinformation problem has been addressed with a crowdsourcing-based approach: to assess the truthfulness of a statement, instead of relying on a few experts, a crowd of non-expert is exploited. We study whether crowdsourcing…

Semantic relation extraction is one of the frontiers of biomedical natural language processing research. Gold standards are key tools for advancing this research. It is challenging to generate these standards because of the high cost of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Tong Shu Li , Benjamin M. Good , Andrew I. Su