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Running experiments on Amazon Mechanical Turk [PDF]

open access: yesJudgment and Decision Making, 2010
Although Mechanical Turk has recently become popular among social scientists as a source of experimental data, doubts may linger about the quality of data provided by subjects recruited from online labor markets.
Gabriele Paolacci   +2 more
doaj   +14 more sources

Collecting psycholinguistic response time data using Amazon mechanical Turk. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2015
Researchers in linguistics and related fields have recently begun exploiting online crowd-sourcing tools, like Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT), to gather behavioral data.
Kelly Enochson, Jennifer Culbertson
doaj   +7 more sources

Crowdsourcing Participatory Evaluation of Medical Pictograms Using Amazon Mechanical Turk

open access: yesJournal of Medical Internet Research, 2013
BackgroundConsumer and patient participation proved to be an effective approach for medical pictogram design, but it can be costly and time-consuming. We proposed and evaluated an inexpensive approach that crowdsourced the pictogram evaluation task to ...
Yu, Bei   +3 more
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Amazon Mechanical Turk: Gold Mine or Coal Mine? [PDF]

open access: yesComputational Linguistics, 2021
Recently heard at a tutorial in our field: “It cost me less than one hundred bucks to annotate this using Amazon Mechanical Turk!” Assertions like this are increasingly common, but we believe they should not be stated so proudly; they ignore the ethical consequences of using MTurk (Amazon Mechanical Turk) as a source of labor.
Karën Fort   +2 more
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The Language Demographics of Amazon Mechanical Turk [PDF]

open access: yesTransactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021
We present a large scale study of the languages spoken by bilingual workers on Mechanical Turk (MTurk). We establish a methodology for determining the language skills of anonymous crowd workers that is more robust than simple surveying. We validate workers’ self-reported language skill claims by measuring their ability to correctly translate words ...
Ellie Pavlick   +4 more
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Analyzing the Amazon Mechanical Turk marketplace [PDF]

open access: yesXRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students, 2010
An associate professor at New York Universitys Stern School of Business uncovers answers about who are the employers in paid crowdsourcing, what tasks they post, and how much they pay.
Ipeirotis, Panagiotis G.
openaire   +4 more sources

Use of Mechanical Turk as a MapReduce Framework for Macular OCT Segmentation [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Ophthalmology, 2016
Purpose. To evaluate the feasibility of using Mechanical Turk as a massively parallel platform to perform manual segmentations of macular spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) images using a MapReduce framework. Methods.
Aaron Y. Lee   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Using Amazon Mechanical Turk for linguistic research [PDF]

open access: yesPsihologija, 2010
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service makes linguistic experimentation quick, easy, and inexpensive. However, researchers have not been certain about its reliability.
Schnoebelen Tyler, Kuperman Victor
doaj   +2 more sources

Crowdsourcing for Machine Learning in Public Health Surveillance: Lessons Learned From Amazon Mechanical Turk

open access: yesJournal of Medical Internet Research, 2022
BackgroundCrowdsourcing services, such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT), allow researchers to use the collective intelligence of a wide range of web users for labor-intensive tasks.
Zahra Shakeri Hossein Abad   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Comparing Amazon Mechanical Turk with unpaid internet resources in online clinical trials [PDF]

open access: yesInternet Interventions, 2018
Internet interventions face significant challenges in recruitment and attrition rates are typically high and problematic. Finding innovative yet scientifically valid avenues for attaining and retaining participants is therefore of considerable importance.
Eduardo Bunge   +7 more
doaj   +2 more sources

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