Making Better Use of the Crowd

author: Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Microsoft Research
published: Nov. 21, 2017,   recorded: August 2017,   views: 751
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Over the last decade, crowdsourcing has been used to harness the power of human computation to solve tasks that are notoriously difficult to solve with computers alone, such as determining whether or not an image contains a tree, rating the relevance of a website, or verifying the phone number of a business.

The machine learning and natural language processing communities were early to embrace crowdsourcing as a tool for quickly and inexpensively obtaining the vast quantities of labeled data needed to train systems. Once this data is collected, it can be handed off to algorithms that learn to make autonomous predictions or actions.

Usually this handoff is where interaction with the crowd ends. The crowd provides the data, but the ultimate goal is to eventually take humans out of the loop. Are there better ways to make use of the crowd?

In this tutorial, I will showcase innovative uses of crowdsourcing that go beyond the collection of data. I will also dive into recent research aimed at understanding who crowdworkers are, how they behave, and what this should teach us about best practices for interacting with the crowd.

Link to tutorial: http://www.jennwv.com/projects/crowdtutorial.html

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