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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

Data annotation is an essential step for constructing new datasets. However, the conventional approach of data annotation through crowdsourcing is both time-consuming and expensive. In addition, the complexity of this process increases when…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Juhwan Choi , Eunju Lee , Kyohoon Jin , YoungBin Kim

Crowdsourcing provides an efficient label collection schema for supervised machine learning. However, to control annotation cost, each instance in the crowdsourced data is typically annotated by a small number of annotators. This creates a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Zhendong Chu , Hongning Wang

Crowdsourcing has been the prevalent paradigm for creating natural language understanding datasets in recent years. A common crowdsourcing practice is to recruit a small number of high-quality workers, and have them massively generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Mor Geva , Yoav Goldberg , Jonathan Berant

Crowdsourcing has emerged as a popular approach for collecting annotated data to train supervised machine learning models. However, annotator bias can lead to defective annotations. Though there are a few works investigating individual…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Haochen Liu , Joseph Thekinen , Sinem Mollaoglu , Da Tang , Ji Yang , Youlong Cheng , Hui Liu , Jiliang Tang

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 has become a common approach for annotating large amounts of data. It has the advantage of harnessing a large workforce to produce large amounts of data in a short time, but comes with the disadvantage of employing non-expert…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-12 Irene Martin-Morato , Annamaria Mesaros

Recent works of opinion expression identification (OEI) rely heavily on the quality and scale of the manually-constructed training corpus, which could be extremely difficult to satisfy. Crowdsourcing is one practical solution for this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Xin Zhang , Guangwei Xu , Yueheng Sun , Meishan Zhang , Xiaobin Wang , Min Zhang

Real-world data for classification is often labeled by multiple annotators. For analyzing such data, we introduce CROWDLAB, a straightforward approach to utilize any trained classifier to estimate: (1) A consensus label for each example…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Hui Wen Goh , Ulyana Tkachenko , Jonas Mueller

Existing works for truth discovery in categorical data usually assume that claimed values are mutually exclusive and only one among them is correct. However, many claimed values are not mutually exclusive even for functional predicates due…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Woohwan Jung , Younghoon Kim , Kyuseok Shim

Most automatic emotion recognition systems exploit time-continuous annotations of emotion to provide fine-grained descriptions of spontaneous expressions as observed in real-life interactions. As emotion is rather subjective, its annotation…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Sina Alisamir , Fabien Ringeval , Francois Portet

Samples with ground truth labels may not always be available in numerous domains. While learning from crowdsourcing labels has been explored, existing models can still fail in the presence of sparse, unreliable, or diverging annotations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Mani Sotoodeh , Li Xiong , Joyce C. Ho

Sequence labeling is a fundamental framework for various natural language processing problems. Its performance is largely influenced by the annotation quality and quantity in supervised learning scenarios, and obtaining ground truth labels…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Ouyu Lan , Xiao Huang , Bill Yuchen Lin , He Jiang , Liyuan Liu , Xiang Ren

For the purpose of efficient and cost-effective large-scale data labeling, crowdsourcing is increasingly being utilized. To guarantee the quality of data labeling, multiple annotations need to be collected for each data sample, and truth…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Fei Wang , Haoyu Liu , Haoyang Bi , Xiangzhuang Shen , Renyu Zhu , Runze Wu , Minmin Lin , Tangjie Lv , Changjie Fan , Qi Liu , Zhenya Huang , Enhong Chen

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

With the rapidly increasing interest in machine learning based solutions for automatic image annotation, the availability of reference annotations for algorithm training is one of the major bottlenecks in the field. Crowdsourcing has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Eric Heim , Alexander Seitel , Jonas Andrulis , Fabian Isensee , Christian Stock , Tobias Ross , Lena Maier-Hein

Training 3D object detectors for autonomous driving has been limited to small datasets due to the effort required to generate annotations. Reducing both task complexity and the amount of task switching done by annotators is key to reducing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Jungwook Lee , Sean Walsh , Ali Harakeh , Steven L. Waslander

Majority voting and averaging are common approaches employed to resolve annotator disagreements and derive single ground truth labels from multiple annotations. However, annotators may systematically disagree with one another, often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Aida Mostafazadeh Davani , Mark Díaz , Vinodkumar Prabhakaran

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

Human annotations serve an important role in computational models where the target constructs under study are hidden, such as dimensions of affect. This is especially relevant in machine learning, where subjective labels derived from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-19 Karel Mundnich , Brandon M. Booth , Benjamin Girault , Shrikanth Narayanan