In this work we present results from using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to annotate translation lexicons between English and a large set of less commonly used languages. We generate candidate translations for 100 English words in each of 42 foreign languages using Wikipedia and a lexicon induction framework. We evaluate the MTurk annotations by using positive and negative control candidate ...

America’s dated infrastructure is failing to keep pace with its burgeoning population. In fact, the average grade in ASCE’s (American Society of Civil Engineers) 2013 report card for America’s infrastructure was a D+, with a 3.6 trillion dollar estimated investment needed by 2020 and needs for inspection and assessment that far surpass available manpower. Crowdsourcing is increasingly being see...

This paper examines the relationship between human generated tags describing different parts of the same song. These tags were collected using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service. We find that the agreement between different people’s tags decreases as the distance between the parts of a song that they heard increases. To model these tags and these relationships, we describe a conditional restricte...

I have used a data-driven approach to detect functional attributes of objects in images. Using ImageNet and Amazon Mechanical Turk, I have created a dataset of more than 7000 images with functional attribute labels. I have used these labels to train functional classifiers, and I compared the precision and recall of these classifiers to the precision and recall of the Amazon Mechanical Turk work...

Crowdsourcing is gaining attention from companies looking for a low-cost, scalable labor force as well as from researchers seeking to leverage human intelligence and study human cognition. Much current crowdsourcing research is related to discovering methods for obtaining high-quality, trustworthy output from the crowd. One element of quality crowd-generated work is repeatability; ie, results a...

The Crusade of Nicopolis (1396) fought and led by a great number Franco Burgundian noblemen knights against the Ottoman Turks was blow to Christendom especially kingdom France. impact defeat in France can easily be detected from contemporary writings where, addition lamenting defeat, there critical stance towards crusaders coupled with an apparent awe soldiers. presence similar themes different...

Online crowdsourcing marketplaces, such as the Amazon Mechanical Turk, provide an environment for cost-effective crowdsourcing on a massive scale, leveraging human intelligence, expertise, and judgment. While the Mechanical Turk is typically used by businesses to clean data, categorize items, and moderate content, the scientific community, too, has begun experimenting with it to conduct academi...