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Online crowdsourcing provides a scalable and inexpensive means to collect knowledge (e.g. labels) about various types of data items (e.g. text, audio, video). However, it is also known to result in large variance in the quality of recorded…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Yuan Jin , Mark Carman , Ye Zhu , Yong Xiang

The recent boom in crowdsourcing has opened up a new avenue for utilizing human intelligence in the realm of data analysis. This innovative approach provides a powerful means for connecting online workers to tasks that cannot effectively be…

Applications · Statistics 2024-02-29 Chen Jason Zhang , Yunrui Liu , Pengcheng Zeng , Ting Wu , Lei Chen , Pan Hui , Fei Hao

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

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

Spatial Crowdsourcing (SC) is a novel platform that engages individuals in the act of collecting various types of spatial data. This method of data collection can significantly reduce cost and turnover time, and is particularly useful in…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-04-27 Luan Tran , Hien To , Liyue Fan , Cyrus Shahabi

Low-quality results have been a long-standing problem on microtask crowdsourcing platforms, driving away requesters and justifying low wages for workers. To date, workers have been blamed for low-quality results: they are said to make as…

We present CrowdHub, a tool for running systematic evaluations of task designs on top of crowdsourcing platforms. The goal is to support the evaluation process, avoiding potential experimental biases that, according to our empirical…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Jorge Ramírez , Simone Degiacomi , Davide Zanella , Marcos Baez , Fabio Casati , Boualem Benatallah

Crowdsourcing has been successfully employed in the past as an effective and cheap way to execute classification tasks and has therefore attracted the attention of the research community. However, we still lack a theoretical understanding…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-10-20 Edoardo Manino , Long Tran-Thanh , Nicholas R. Jennings

Over the past decade, crowdsourcing has emerged as a cheap and efficient method of obtaining solutions to simple tasks that are difficult for computers to solve but possible for humans. The popularity and promise of crowdsourcing markets…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-11-27 Aleksandrs Slivkins , Jennifer Wortman Vaughan

Allowing members of the crowd to propose novel microtasks for one another is an effective way to combine the efficiencies of traditional microtask work with the inventiveness and hypothesis generation potential of human workers. However,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Abigail Hotaling , James P. Bagrow

Crowdsourcing refers to the arrangement in which contributions are solicited from a large group of unrelated people. Due to this nature, crowdsourcers (or task requesters) often face uncertainty about the workers' capabilities which, in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-01-25 Han Yu

With the rapid development of Mobile Internet, spatial crowdsourcing is gaining more and more attention from both academia and industry. In spatial crowdsourcing, spatial tasks are sent to workers based on their locations. A wide kind of…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Tianshu Song , Feng Zhu , Ke Xu

Many data mining tasks cannot be completely addressed by auto- mated processes, such as sentiment analysis and image classification. Crowdsourcing is an effective way to harness the human cognitive ability to process these machine-hard…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Chengliang Chai , Ju Fan , Guoliang Li , Jiannan Wang , Yudian Zheng

Spatial crowdsourcing (SC) engages large worker pools for location-based tasks, attracting growing research interest. However, prior SC task allocation approaches exhibit limitations in computational efficiency, balanced matching, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Kun Li , Shengling Wang , Hongwei Shi , Xiuzhen Cheng , Minghui Xu

Crowdsourcing is a process of accumulating the ideas, thoughts or information from many independent participants, with aim to find the best solution for a given challenge. Modern information technologies allow for massive number of subjects…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-04-04 Andrea Guazzini , Daniele Vilone , Camillo Donati , Annalisa Nardi , Zoran Levnajic

Crowdsourcing models applied to work on mobile devices continuously reach new ways of solving sophisticated problems, now with a use of portable advanced devices, where users are not limited to a stationary use. There exists an open problem…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-05-29 Oskar Jarczyk

Crowdsourcing and human computation has been employed in increasingly sophisticated projects that require the solution of a heterogeneous set of tasks. We explore the challenge of building or hiring an effective team, for performing tasks…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2015-08-14 Adish Singla , Eric Horvitz , Pushmeet Kohli , Andreas Krause

Linguistically diverse datasets are critical for training and evaluating robust machine learning systems, but data collection is a costly process that often requires experts. Crowdsourcing the process of paraphrase generation is an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Youxuan Jiang , Jonathan K. Kummerfeld , Walter S. Lasecki

Modern machine learning approaches have led to performant diagnostic models for a variety of health conditions. Several machine learning approaches, such as decision trees and deep neural networks, can, in principle, approximate any…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Peter Washington