English
Related papers

Related papers: End-to-End Annotator Bias Approximation on Crowdso…

200 papers

To train machine learning algorithms to predict emotional expressions in terms of arousal and valence, annotated datasets are needed. However, as different people perceive others' emotional expressions differently, their annotations are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-14 Navin Raj Prabhu , Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock , Timo Gerkman

Human annotations are vital to supervised learning, yet annotators often disagree on the correct label, especially as annotation tasks increase in complexity. A strategy to improve label quality is to ask multiple annotators to label the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Alexander Braylan , Madalyn Marabella , Omar Alonso , Matthew Lease

Fine-grained opinion analysis of text provides a detailed understanding of expressed sentiments, including the addressed entity. Although this level of detail is valuable, annotating opinions in datasets for model training requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Gaurav Negi , MA Waskow , John McCrae , Omnia Zayed , Paul Buitelaar

Building an accurate computer-aided diagnosis system based on data-driven approaches requires a large amount of high-quality labeled data. In medical imaging analysis, multiple expert annotators often produce subjective estimates about…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Khiem H. Le , Tuan V. Tran , Hieu H. Pham , Hieu T. Nguyen , Tung T. Le , Ha Q. Nguyen

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

Annotated data is an essential ingredient in natural language processing for training and evaluating machine learning models. It is therefore very desirable for the annotations to be of high quality. Recent work, however, has shown that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Jan-Christoph Klie , Bonnie Webber , Iryna Gurevych

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

Efficiently evaluating the performance of text-to-image models is difficult as it inherently requires subjective judgment and human preference, making it hard to compare different models and quantify the state of the art. Leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Dimitrios Christodoulou , Mads Kuhlmann-Jørgensen

Selecting an effective training signal for machine learning tasks is difficult: expert annotations are expensive, and crowd-sourced annotations may not be reliable. Recent work has demonstrated that learning from a distribution over labels…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Dustin Wright , Isabelle Augenstein

Recent trends in natural language processing research and annotation tasks affirm a paradigm shift from the traditional reliance on a single ground truth to a focus on individual perspectives, particularly in subjective tasks. In scenarios…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Olufunke O. Sarumi , Béla Neuendorf , Joan Plepi , Lucie Flek , Jörg Schlötterer , Charles Welch

Sentiment analysis is a well-known natural language processing task that involves identifying the emotional tone or polarity of a given piece of text. With the growth of social media and other online platforms, sentiment analysis has become…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Mohammad Belal , James She , Simon Wong

Since previous studies on open-domain targeted sentiment analysis are limited in dataset domain variety and sentence level, we propose a novel dataset consisting of 6,013 human-labeled data to extend the data domains in topics of interest…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Yun Luo , Hongjie Cai , Linyi Yang , Yanxia Qin , Rui Xia , Yue Zhang

Over the past two decades, speech emotion recognition (SER) has received growing attention. To train SER systems, researchers collect emotional speech databases annotated by crowdsourced or in-house raters who select emotions from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-08 Huang-Cheng Chou , Chi-Chun Lee

Expertise of annotators has a major role in crowdsourcing based opinion aggregation models. In such frameworks, accuracy and biasness of annotators are occasionally taken as important features and based on them priority of the annotators…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-09-01 Sujoy Chatterjee , Anirban Mukhopadhyay , Malay Bhattacharyya

Natural language understanding (NLU) is a task that enables machines to understand human language. Some tasks, such as stance detection and sentiment analysis, are closely related to individual subjective perspectives, thus termed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Yunpeng Xiao , Youpeng Zhao , Kai Shu

When constructing models that learn from noisy labels produced by multiple annotators, it is important to accurately estimate the reliability of annotators. Annotators may provide labels of inconsistent quality due to their varying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Maolin Li , Arvid Fahlström Myrman , Tingting Mu , Sophia Ananiadou

Data is the engine of modern computer vision, which necessitates collecting large-scale datasets. This is expensive, and guaranteeing the quality of the labels is a major challenge. In this paper, we investigate efficient annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Yuan-Hong Liao , Amlan Kar , Sanja Fidler

In affective computing, datasets often contain multiple annotations from different annotators, which may lack full agreement. Typically, these annotations are merged into a single gold standard label, potentially losing valuable inter-rater…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Ibrahim Shoer , Engin Erzin

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

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