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UIST
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Soylent: a word processor with a crowd inside
This paper introduces architectural and interaction patterns for integrating crowdsourced human contributions directly into user interfaces. We focus on writing and editing, compl...
Michael S. Bernstein, Greg Little, Robert C. Mille...
JCDL
2010
ACM
199views Education» more  JCDL 2010»
14 years 1 months ago
Crowdsourcing the assembly of concept hierarchies
The“wisdom of crowds”is accomplishing tasks that are cumbersome for individuals yet cannot be fully automated by means of specialized computer algorithms. One such task is the...
Kai Eckert, Mathias Niepert, Christof Niemann, Cam...
KDD
2009
ACM
183views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Financial incentives and the "performance of crowds"
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...
Winter A. Mason, Duncan J. Watts
CIDR
2011
228views Algorithms» more  CIDR 2011»
13 years 9 hour ago
Crowdsourced Databases: Query Processing with People
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...
Adam Marcus 0002, Eugene Wu 0002, Samuel Madden, R...
UIST
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
TurKit: human computation algorithms on mechanical turk
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...
Greg Little, Lydia B. Chilton, Max Goldman, Robert...