TurKit: Tools for iterative tasks on mechanical Turk

Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is an increasingly popular web service for paying people small rewards to do human computation tasks. Current uses of MTurk typically post independent parallel tasks. We are exploring an alternative iterative paradigm, in which workers build on or evaluate each other's w...

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Main Authors: Little, Danny Greg (Contributor), Chilton, Lydia B. (Contributor), Goldman, Max (Contributor), Miller, Robert C. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2012-09-13T14:50:20Z.
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520 |a National Science Foundation (U.S.). (Grant number IIS-0447800) 
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773 |t Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Human Computation (HCOMP '09)