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ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Using the Amazon Mechanical Turk for transcription of spoken language
We investigate whether Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) service can be used as a reliable method for transcription of spoken language data. Utterances with varying speaker demog...
Matthew Marge, Satanjeev Banerjee, Alexander I. Ru...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Crowdsourcing a wikipedia vandalism corpus
We report on the construction of the PAN Wikipedia vandalism corpus, PAN-WVC-10, using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. The corpus compiles 32 452 edits on 28 468 Wikipedia articles, a...
Martin Potthast
KDD
2009
ACM
183views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
14 years 1 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