June 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.
Bob Carpenter
05/27/09
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.
lukas
05/27/09
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.
William Hayes
06/03/09
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
kare anderson
08/24/09
I hope you have another meetup!
Amazon Blog
07/20/10
I would think a conference could easily be built around Mechanical Turk (scientific: sociological, statistical studies; practical engineering, best practice, ???).Thanks!