Speaking Outside the Box: Exploring the Benefits of Unconstrained Input in Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science Platforms

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-433936

Chamberlain, Jon ; Kruschwitz, Udo

; Poesio, Massimo

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Item type:	Conference or workshop item (UNSPECIFIED)
Title of Book:	Proceedings of the LREC 2020 Workshop on "Citizen Linguistics in Language Resource Development", Marseille, France
Publisher:	European Language Resources Association
Page Range:	pp. 26-34
Date:	29 May 2020
Institutions:	Languages and Literatures > Institut für Information und Medien, Sprache und Kultur (I:IMSK) > Lehrstuhl für Informationswissenschaft (Prof. Dr. Udo Kruschwitz) Informatics and Data Science > Department Human-Centered Computing > Lehrstuhl für Informationswissenschaft (Prof. Dr. Udo Kruschwitz)
Dewey Decimal Classification:	000 Computer science, information & general works > 020 Library & information sciences
Status:	Published
Refereed:	Yes, this version has been refereed
Created at the University of Regensburg:	Yes
Item ID:	43393

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Abstract

Crowdsourcing approaches provide a difficult design challenge for developers. There is a trade-off between the efficiency of the task to be done and the reward given to the user for participating, whether it be altruism, social enhancement, entertainment or money. This paper explores how crowdsourcing and citizen science systems collect data and complete tasks, illustrated by a case study from ...