Hybrid human/machine database and search systems promise to greatly expand the usefulness of query processing by incorporating human knowledge and experience via "crowdsourcing" into existing systems for data gathering and other tasks. Of course, such systems raise many implementation questions. For example, how can we reason about query result quality in a hybrid system? How can we best combine the benefits of machine computation and human computation? In this thesis we describe how we attacked these challenges by developing statistical tools that enable users and systems developers to reason about query completeness in hybrid database systems, as well as combining human and automated processing in search engines. We present evaluations of these techniques using experiments run on a popular crowdsourcing platform, Amazon's Mechanical Turk.
Title
Collecting Data With the Crowd
Published
2014-12-04
Full Collection Name
Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences Technical Reports
Other Identifiers
EECS-2014-208
Type
Text
Extent
126 p
Archive
The Engineering Library
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