This special issue acknowledges important innovations in the world of service and within this domain we are particularly interested in exploring the rise and influence of web-based crowd-sourcing and algorithmic rating and ranking mechanisms. We suggest that a useful way to make sense of these digital service innovations and their novel implications is to recognize that they are materialized in...

This paper investigates the feasibility of using crowd-sourcing services for the human assessment of machine translation quality of translations into non-English target languages. Non-expert graders are hired through the CrowdFlower interface to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk in order to carry out a ranking-based MT evaluation of utterances taken from the travel conversation domain for 10 Indo-Europe...

The recent progress on image recognition and language modeling is making automatic description of image content a reality. However, stylized, non-factual aspects of the written description are missing from the current systems. One such style is descriptions with emotions, which is commonplace in everyday communication, and influences decision-making and interpersonal relationships. We design a ...

Recently spatial information services market is growing. In addition, consumers make to direct spatial information service more than just a service provider. It means now satisfy the needs of the consumer. So, make the name ‘User participation, Crowd mapping and Crowd sourcing’. Make it one that can be smart devices. One of seven people (all of world’s population) are now using a smart phone, f...