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Crowdsourced labels play a crucial role in evaluating task-oriented dialogue systems (TDSs). Obtaining high-quality and consistent ground-truth labels from annotators presents challenges. When evaluating a TDS, annotators must fully…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Clemencia Siro , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Maarten de Rijke

We introduce an unsupervised approach to efficiently discover the underlying features in a data set via crowdsourcing. Our queries ask crowd members to articulate a feature common to two out of three displayed examples. In addition we also…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-04-02 James Y. Zou , Kamalika Chaudhuri , Adam Tauman Kalai

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

We propose a fully Bayesian framework for learning ground truth labels from noisy annotators. Our framework ensures scalability by factoring a generative, Bayesian soft clustering model over label distributions into the classic David and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya , Alexander G. Ororbia , Christopher M. Homan

The problem of estimating subjective visual properties from image and video has attracted increasing interest. A subjective visual property is useful either on its own (e.g. image and video interestingness) or as an intermediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-28 Yanwei Fu , Timothy M. Hospedales , Tao Xiang , Jiechao Xiong , Shaogang Gong , Yizhou Wang , Yuan Yao

Supervised classification algorithms are used to solve a growing number of real-life problems around the globe. Their performance is strictly connected with the quality of labels used in training. Unfortunately, acquiring good-quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Daniel Kałuża , Andrzej Janusz , Dominik Ślęzak

Crowdsourcing has eased and scaled up the collection of linguistic annotation in recent years. In this work, we follow known methodologies of collecting labeled data for the complement coercion phenomenon. These are constructions with an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Yanai Elazar , Victoria Basmov , Shauli Ravfogel , Yoav Goldberg , Reut Tsarfaty

Crowdsourcing is an online outsourcing mode which can solve the current machine learning algorithm's urge need for massive labeled data. Requester posts tasks on crowdsourcing platforms, which employ online workers over the Internet to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Guangyang Han , Sufang Li , Runmin Wang , Chunming Wu

Visualizing NLP annotation is useful for the collection of training data for the statistical NLP approaches. Existing toolkits either provide limited visual aid, or introduce comprehensive operators to realize sophisticated linguistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-08-26 Hanchuan Li , Haichen Shen , Shengliang Xu , Congle Zhang

In recent years, crowdsourcing, aka human aided computation has emerged as an effective platform for solving problems that are considered complex for machines alone. Using human is time-consuming and costly due to monetary compensations.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-08 Arya Mazumdar , Barna Saha

A key challenge of big data analytics is how to collect a large volume of (labeled) data. Crowdsourcing aims to address this challenge via aggregating and estimating high-quality data (e.g., sentiment label for text) from pervasive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Minghong Fang , Minghao Sun , Qi Li , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Jin Tian , Jia Liu

One of the fundamental problems in crowdsourcing is the trade-off between the number of the workers needed for high-accuracy aggregation and the budget to pay. For saving budget, it is important to ensure high quality of the crowd-sourced…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Yao-Xiang Ding , Zhi-Hua Zhou

NLP benchmarks rely on standardized datasets for training and evaluating models and are crucial for advancing the field. Traditionally, expert annotations ensure high-quality labels; however, the cost of expert annotation does not scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Omer Nahum , Nitay Calderon , Orgad Keller , Idan Szpektor , Roi Reichart

Annotating large datasets can be challenging. However, crowd-sourcing is often expensive and can lack quality, especially for non-trivial tasks. We propose a method of using LLMs as few-shot learners for annotating data in a complex natural…

The phenomenal success of certain crowdsourced online platforms, such as Wikipedia, is accredited to their ability to tap the crowd's potential to collaboratively build knowledge. While it is well known that the crowd's collective wisdom…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-08-28 Anamika Chhabra , S. R. S. Iyengar , Poonam Saini , Rajesh Shreedhar Bhat , Vijay Kumar

The metadata about scientific experiments published in online repositories have been shown to suffer from a high degree of representational heterogeneity---there are often many ways to represent the same type of information, such as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Rafael S. Gonçalves , Maulik R. Kamdar , Mark A. Musen

We study utilizing auxiliary information in training data to improve the trustworthiness of machine learning models. Specifically, in the context of image classification, we propose to optimize a training objective that incorporates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Dharma KC , Chicheng Zhang

Large-scale annotated datasets allow AI systems to learn from and build upon the knowledge of the crowd. Many crowdsourcing techniques have been developed for collecting image annotations. These techniques often implicitly rely on the fact…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-10-07 Gunnar A. Sigurdsson , Olga Russakovsky , Ali Farhadi , Ivan Laptev , Abhinav Gupta

Supervised deep learning depends on massive accurately annotated examples, which is usually impractical in many real-world scenarios. A typical alternative is learning from multiple noisy annotators. Numerous earlier works assume that all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Shikun Li , Tongliang Liu , Jiyong Tan , Dan Zeng , Shiming Ge

Disagreement in annotation is a common phenomenon in the development of NLP datasets and serves as a valuable source of insight. While majority voting remains the dominant strategy for aggregating labels, recent work has explored modeling…