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Active Learning with Amazon Mechanical Turk
... voting and is adaptive in the number of repeated an- notations. For NER, a sentence is first annotated by two workers. Then majority voting is performed for each token individually. If there is a majority for ev- ery ...
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The Language Demographics of Amazon Mechanical Turk
... Since Mechanical Turk provides financial incen- tives for participation, many workers attempt to complete tasks even if they do not have the lan- guage skills necessary to do ...a HIT (cumulative and ...
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Clustering dictionary definitions using Amazon Mechanical Turk
... HIT could be adopted, the same policy might result in poor clustering if used for the global-view HIT. However, global-view has the advantage over local-view of being cheaper. Figure 2 shows the ...
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Amazon Mechanical Turk for Subjectivity Word Sense Disambiguation
... 6.1 Group Evaluation As mentioned in the previous section, we collect three annotations for each HIT. They are assigned to respective trials in the order submitted by the work- ers. The results are summarized in ...
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Using the Amazon Mechanical Turk for Transcription of Spoken Language
... Table 3 . Latency (turnaround time) and WER across payment with and without ROVER. 5.2 Latency & Error Analysis The latency column in Table 3 shows that cost appears to affect the amount of time it takes to obtain ...
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Crowdsourced data preprocessing with R and Amazon Mechanical Turk
... A HIT is a task that a requester would like one or more workers to ...Every HIT is automatically assigned a unique HITId to identify this HIT in the ...that HIT by one worker is called an ...
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Last Words: Amazon Mechanical Turk: Gold Mine or Coal Mine?
... source of income, and that one third of the HITs are performed by Turkers who need MTurk to make basic ends meet, you then have to admit that MTurk is, at least for them, a labor marketplace. Moreover, the frequent ...
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The average laboratory samples a population of 7,300 Amazon Mechanical Turk workers
... Figure 1: The details of timing, HIT acceptance and location requirements, and pay and duration across the seven labs. The first row shows the timing of the experiments by laboratory. A dot, jittered vertically, ...
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Amazon Mechanical Turk Workers Can Provide Consistent and Economically Meaningful Data
... This suggests that the money earned from completing HITs might be especially valu- able to AMT workers. Since the HITs generally pay small amounts, the only way to earn even minimum wage is to complete many HITs. ...
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Remote Asynchronous Usability Testing Using Amazon Mechanical Turk
... their HIT rejected so that they will receive ...the HIT process is governed by the law of diminishing ...the Mechanical Turk ...this HIT within the first few ...a HIT higher than ...
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Amazon s Mechanical Turk: A New Source of Inexpensive, Yet High-Quality, Data?
... EVALUATING MTURK – ONLINE SUPPLEMENT 5 given HIT only once without going to the lengths of creating additional MTurk accounts. Moreover, MTurk’s “Qualifications” feature allows requesters to select only the ...
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Mechanical Turk Audio Transcription
... of mechanical turk, it to conventional methods of stimulus items had full ...whatever HIT, another similar angle will be presented for smoke to ...that mechanical turk is. This ...
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Exploring Normalization Techniques for Human Judgments of Machine Translation Adequacy Collected Using Amazon Mechanical Turk
... To allow experimentation with various data nor- malization techniques, we collect judgments from 10 unique Turkers for each of the translations. We also ask an expert to provide “gold standard” judg- ments for 101 ...
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Creating Speech and Language Data With Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
... Their creative data collection may or may not have a significant impact, but it is unlikely that it would have been tried had the cost been very high. Finally, while obtaining new data annotations from MTurk is cheap, it ...
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Collecting Image Annotations Using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
... Each HIT consisted of fifty differ- ent image descriptions and asked Turkers to decide for each of them whether they contained correct grammar and spelling or ...each HIT, we included a brief training ...
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Using Mechanical Turk as a Subject Recruitment Tool for Experimental Research
... To initiate a survey using MTurk, a researcher – or, to use Amazon’s language, “Requester” – establishes an account (www.mturk.com), places funds into her account, and then posts using the MTurk web interface a “job ...
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Use of Mechanical Turk as a MapReduce Framework for Macular OCT Segmentation
... using Mechanical Turk as a massively parallel platform to perform manual segmentations of macular spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) images using a MapReduce ...to Amazon ...
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Paragraph Acquisition and Selection for List Question Using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
... Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (AMT) to judge whether paragraphs in relevant documents answer corresponding list questions in TREC QA track ...per HIT on the performance of those ...higher HIT ...
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Creating a Research Collection of Question Answer Sentence Pairs with Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
... A screenshot of one of our HITs can be seen in Figure 1. Every HIT was completed by three different turkers before 2 [http://www.mechanicalturk.com] it was removed from the HIT-list. This enabled us to ...
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Fast, Cheap, and Creative: Evaluating Translation Quality Using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
... The actress Heather Locklear, Amanda on the popular se- ries Melrose Place, was arrested this weekend in Santa Bar- bara (California) after driving under the influence of drugs. A witness saw her performing inappropriate ...
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