Crowdsourcing for Language Resources and Evaluation
Creators: name: Ustalov, Dmitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: crowdsourcing
natural language processing
language resources
wikipedia
microtasks
video games
evaluation
annotation
quality control

description: Crowdsourcing is an efficient approach for knowledge acquisition and data annotation that enables building impressive human-computer systems. In this tutorial we will discuss the relations between Crowdsourcing and Natural Language Processing, focusing on its practical use for Language Resource construction and evaluation. We will describe the established genres of crowdsourcing, show their strengths and weaknesses on real-world examples and case studies, and provide recommendations for ensuring the high quality of the crowdsourced annotation.
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