AAAI
2012
12 years 2 months ago
2012
We explore the problem of assigning heterogeneous tasks to workers with different, unknown skill sets in crowdsourcing markets such as Amazon Mechanical Turk. We first formalize ...
AAAI
2012
12 years 2 months ago
2012
The flourishing of online labor markets such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) makes it easy to recruit many workers for solving small tasks. We study whether information elicita...
AAAI
2012
12 years 2 months ago
2012
We examine designs for crowdsourcing contests, where participants compete for rewards given to superior solutions of a task. We theoretically analyze tradeoffs between the expecta...
KDD
2012
ACM
12 years 3 months ago
2012
ACM
Crowdsourcing has recently become popular among machine learning researchers and social scientists as an effective way to collect large-scale experimental data from distributed w...
CICLING
2012
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
2012
Springer
While there are a number of subjectivity lexicons available for research purposes, none can be used commercially. We describe the process of constructing subjectivity lexicon(s) fo...
EMNLP
2011
13 years 7 days ago
2011
Accurate prediction of demographic attributes from social media and other informal online content is valuable for marketing, personalization, and legal investigation. This paper d...
CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2011
ACM
While a large body of research on image-based authentication has focused on memorability, comparatively less attention has been paid to the new security challenges these schemes m...
CVPR
2011
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2011
IEEE
The task of 2-D articulated human pose estimation in natural images is extremely challenging due to the high level of variation in human appearance. These variations arise from di...
ACL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
We explore how to improve machine translation systems by adding more translation data in situations where we already have substantial resources. The main challenge is how to buck ...
CVPR
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2009
IEEE
The explosion of image data on the Internet has the potential to foster more sophisticated and robust models and algorithms to index, retrieve, organize and interact with images a...