Comments on: Amazon Mechanical Turk/Crowdsourcing Work Meetup

By: Amazon Blog

Amazon Blog — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:42:40 +0000

I would think a conference could easily be built around Mechanical Turk (scientific: sociological, statistical studies; practical engineering, best practice, ???).Thanks!

By: kare anderson

kare anderson — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:48:54 +0000

I hope you have another meetup!

By: William Hayes

William Hayes — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:33:19 +0000

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

By: lukas

lukas — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:29:19 +0000

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.

By: Bob Carpenter

Bob Carpenter — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:46:09 +0000

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.