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EMNLP
2011
12 years 5 months ago
Discriminating Gender on Twitter
Accurate prediction of demographic attributes from social media and other informal online content is valuable for marketing, personalization, and legal investigation. This paper d...
John D. Burger, John C. Henderson, George Kim, Gui...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Cheap and Fast - But is it Good? Evaluating Non-Expert Annotations for Natural Language Tasks
Human linguistic annotation is crucial for many natural language processing tasks but can be expensive and time-consuming. We explore the use of Amazon's Mechanical Turk syst...
Rion Snow, Brendan O'Connor, Daniel Jurafsky, Andr...
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 9 months ago
Accurate transcription of broadcast news speech using multiple noisy transcribers and unsupervised reliability metrics
Professional manual transcription of speech is an expensive and time consuming process. This paper focuses on the problem of combining noisy transcriptions from multiple non-exper...
Kartik Audhkhasi, Panayiotis G. Georgiou, Shrikant...
AAAI
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Decision-Theoretic Control of Crowd-Sourced Workflows
Crowd-sourcing is a recent framework in which human intelligence tasks are outsourced to a crowd of unknown people ("workers") as an open call (e.g., on Amazon's Me...
Peng Dai, Mausam, Daniel S. Weld
COLING
2010
13 years 16 days ago
Detecting Speech Repairs Incrementally Using a Noisy Channel Approach
Unrehearsed spoken language often contains disfluencies. In order to correctly interpret a spoken utterance, any such disfluencies must be identified and removed or otherwise deal...
Simon Zwarts, Mark Johnson, Robert Dale