WACV
2012
IEEE
11 years 12 months ago
2012
IEEE
Crowd-sourcing tools such as Mechanical Turk are popular for annotation of large scale image data sets. Typically, these annotations consist of bounding boxes or coarse outlines o...
ECIR
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
2011
Springer
Aggregated search is the task of incorporating results from different specialized search services, or verticals, into Web search results. While most prior work focuses on deciding...
CIDR
2011
12 years 8 months ago
2011
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (“MTurk”) service allows users to post short tasks (“HITs”) that other users can receive a small amount of money for completing. Common tasks on...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
2011
ACM
Social media, by its very nature, introduces questions about ownership. Ownership comes into play most crucially when we investigate how social media is saved or archived; how it ...
UIST
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
2010
ACM
Mechanical Turk provides an on-demand source of human computation. This provides a tremendous opportunity to explore algorithms which incorporate human computation as a function c...
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Deploying an automatic speech recognition system with reasonable performance requires expensive and time-consuming in-domain transcription. Previous work demonstrated that non-pro...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
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...
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2010
ACM
Services like Amazon’s Mechanical Turk have opened the door for exploration of processes that outsource computation to humans. These human computation processes hold tremendous ...
KDD
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
The relationship between financial incentives and performance, long of interest to social scientists, has gained new relevance with the advent of web-based “crowd-sourcing” mo...
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2010
ACM
In this paper we discuss a screening process used in conjunction with a survey administered via Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk. We sought an easily implementable method to disqual...