[Corpora-List] Using MTurk for markup tasks (was Cost of part of speech tagging)

Hamish Cunningham hamish at dcs.shef.ac.uk
Mon Jan 8 14:08:55 UTC 2007


>> > An interesting approach would be to use Amazon Mechanical Turk for
>> > this kinds of tasks.
>> > ...
>> > Has anybody else given a thought to this?

We're working on a distributed collaborative annotation system for this
type of thing in the GATE team - http://gate.ac.uk - under the heading
Semantic Annotation Factory Environment. MTurk was one of the inspirations,
and is a strong candidate for part of the workflow.

Best,
-- 
Hamish
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~hamish/



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