York University at TREC 2012: CrowdSourcing Track

Abstract

The objective of this work is to address the challenges in managing and analyzing crowdsourcing in the information retrieval field. In particular, we would like to answer the following questions: (1) how to control the quality of the workers when crowdsourcing? (2) How to design the interface such that the workers are willing to participate in and are driven to give useful feedback information? (3) How to make use the crowdsourcing information in the IR systems? The crowdsourcing system called CrowdFlower is employed and four classic information retrieval models are applied in our proposed approaches. Our experimental results show that the IR systems refine the results crowdsourcing by minimizing the manual work and the cost is much less.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA581534

Entities

People

  • Qinmin Hu
  • Xiangji Huang
  • Zheng Ye
  • Zhi Xu

Organizations

  • University of York

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Science
  • Crowdsourcing
  • Data Sets
  • Engineering
  • Feedback
  • Information Operations
  • Information Retrieval
  • Information Systems
  • Judgment
  • Language
  • Probability
  • Quality Control
  • Standards
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Information Retrieval
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Information Retrieval