Amazon Mechanical Turk/Crowdsourcing Work Meetup

May 22nd, 2009 by Lukas Biewald

Dolores Labs OfficeJune 10th, 6PM - we’re having a Mechanical Turk meetup at our office!

We have a great lineup of short talks:
Bob Carpenter (Alias I, Inc.) - Failure study of biology task
Rion Snow (Stanford) - The abundance of the stimulus: exploding data acquisition bottlenecks with the Turk firehose
Alexander Sorokin (UIUC) - Generic Web-Based Toolkit for Mechanical Turk
Mikhail Seregine (Jambool) - Architecture of AMT-based Shopping Engine
Lilly Irani (UC Irvine) - Turkopticon: Rating Requesters

We also have John Hoskins and Sharon Chiarella (Amazon VP of Mechanical Turk) coming down from Seattle to join us and answer questions.

I’m excited to find out what everyone is up to - and I’d especially like to invite our blog readers to come. If you would like to join us, please RSVP on our meetup page.

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4 Responses to “Amazon Mechanical Turk/Crowdsourcing Work Meetup”

  1. Bob Carpenter Says:
    May 27th, 2009 at 4:46 pm

    Lukas (our host) just made up a title for my (Bob Carpenter’s) presentation (which is of joint work with Breck Baldwin and Emily Jamison), “Failure study of [a] biology task”.

    I’m going to be talking about some of the NLP tasks we’ve run successfully (named entity tagging and morphological analysis) and also one (linking MEDLINE to Entrez-Gene) that didn’t work. I’ll discuss some of the UI issues along the way. I’ll also describe the high level view of inferring gold standards and annotator accuracy, particularly with respect to its effect on applications. But don’t worry — I won’t be assuming the audience is full of Bayesian statistician.

  2. lukas Says:
    May 27th, 2009 at 11:29 pm

    Thanks for the clarification, Bob. No one likes my titles for their presos — I guess I should have asked people to give me titles :). For the record, those titles are mine.

  3. William Hayes Says:
    June 3rd, 2009 at 12:33 pm

    Hi Lukas,

    Will you be able to post these presentations afterwards? I can’t make it (being out of state), but this is a great idea. Alias-I has done a great job of opening my eyes (and others in the bionlp space) regarding the potential of Mechanical Turk for our curation needs. I would think a conference could easily be built around Mechanical Turk (scientific: sociological, statistical studies; practical engineering, best practice, ???).

    Thanks!

    William Hayes

  4. kare anderson Says:
    August 24th, 2009 at 3:48 pm

    I hope you have another meetup!

  5. Google Local Business Directory Says:
    December 30th, 2009 at 7:51 am

    The dynamics of events such as these are always conducive to some seriously creative vibes. Throw all these big words and concepts into the mix, and the ensueing potpourri is bouind to be extremely fragrant…..

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