Crowdsourcing and language studies: The new generation of linguistic data

Robert Munro, Steven Bethard, Victor Kuperman, Vicky Tzuyin Lai, Robin Melnick, Christopher Potts, Tyler Schnoebelen, Harry Tily

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Abstract

We present a compendium of recent and current projects that utilize crowdsourcing technologies for language studies, finding that the quality is comparable to controlled laboratory experiments, and in some cases superior. While crowdsourcing has primarily been used for annotation in recent language studies, the results here demonstrate that far richer data may be generated in a range of linguistic disciplines from semantics to psycholinguistics. For these, we report a number of successful methods for evaluating data quality in the absence of a 'correct' response for any given data point.

Conference

Conference2010 Workshop on Creating Speech and Language Data with Amazon's Mechanical Turk, Mturk 2010 at the 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2010
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLos Angeles
Period6/6/10 → …

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Linguistics and Language

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