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In multimedia crowdsourcing, the requester's quality requirements and reward decisions will affect the workers' task selection strategies and the quality of their multimedia contributions. In this paper, we present a first study on how the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Qi Shao , Man Hon Cheung , Jianwei Huang

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

Mobile crowdsourcing refers to systems where the completion of tasks necessarily requires physical movement of crowdworkers in an on-demand workforce. Evidence suggests that in such systems, tasks often get assigned to crowdworkers who…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Ralf Bruns , Jeremias Dötterl , Jürgen Dunkel , Sascha Ossowski

We consider the problem of cost-optimal utilization of a crowdsourcing platform for binary, unsupervised classification of a collection of items, given a prescribed error threshold. Workers on the crowdsourcing platform are assumed to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Yashvardhan Didwania , Jayakrishnan Nair , N. Hemachandra

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

Crowdsourcing platforms enable to propose simple human intelligence tasks to a large number of participants who realise these tasks. The workers often receive a small amount of money or the platforms include some other incentive mechanisms,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Amal Ben Rjab , Mouloud Kharoune , Zoltan Miklos , Arnaud Martin

A clinical study is often necessary for exploring important research questions; however, this approach is sometimes time and money consuming. Another extreme approach, which is to collect and aggregate opinions from crowds, provides a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Shoko Wakamiya , Toshiki Mera , Eiji Aramaki , Masaki Matsubara , Atsuyuki Morishima

The recent success of generative AI highlights the crucial role of high-quality human feedback in building trustworthy AI systems. However, the increasing use of large language models (LLMs) by crowdsourcing workers poses a significant…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Yichi Zhang , Jinlong Pang , Zhaowei Zhu , Yang Liu

Crowdsourcing is now widely used to replace judgement by an expert authority with an aggregate evaluation from a number of non-experts, in applications ranging from rating and categorizing online content to evaluation of student assignments…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-05 Anirban Dasgupta , Arpita Ghosh

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

Typically crowdsourcing-based approaches to gather annotated data use inter-annotator agreement as a measure of quality. However, in many domains, there is ambiguity in the data, as well as a multitude of perspectives of the information…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Anca Dumitrache , Oana Inel , Lora Aroyo , Benjamin Timmermans , Chris Welty

Microtask crowdsourcing is increasingly critical to the creation of extremely large datasets. As a result, crowd workers spend weeks or months repeating the exact same tasks, making it necessary to understand their behavior over these long…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-11-02 Kenji Hata , Ranjay Krishna , Li Fei-Fei , Michael S. Bernstein

Crowdsourcing has become an efficient paradigm for performing large scale tasks. Truth discovery and incentive mechanism are fundamentally important for the crowdsourcing system. Many truth discovery methods and incentive mechanisms for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Lingyun Jiang , Xiaofu Niu , Jia Xu , Dejun Yang , Lijie Xu

Crowdsourcing systems aggregate decisions of many people to help users quickly identify high-quality options, such as the best answers to questions or interesting news stories. A long-standing issue in crowdsourcing is how option quality…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Keith Burghardt , Tad Hogg , Raissa M. D'Souza , Kristina Lerman , Marton Posfai

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

Machine Learning models have many potentially beneficial applications in education settings, but a key barrier to their development is securing enough data to train these models. Labelling educational data has traditionally relied on highly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Owen Henkel , Libby Hills

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…

Crowdsourcing platforms enable companies to propose tasks to a large crowd of users. The workers receive a compensation for their work according to the serious of the tasks they managed to accomplish. The evaluation of the quality of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Jean-Christophe Dubois , Laetitia Gros , Mouloud Kharoune , Yolande Le Gall , Arnaud Martin , Zoltán Miklós , Hosna Ouni

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

Collusion occurs when multiple malicious participants of a distributed protocol work together to sabotage or spy on honest participants. Decentralized protocols often rely on a subset of participants called workers for critical operations.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Matthieu Bettinger , Lucas Barbero , Omar Hasan