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Aggregating Reliable Submissions in Crowdsourcing Systems

Publication Type : Journal Article

Publisher : IEEE

Source : IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 153058-153071, 2021

Url : https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9614193

Campus : Amritapuri, Coimbatore

School : School of Artificial Intelligence - Coimbatore, School of Computing

Center : AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Distributed Systems, Algorithms and Computing Systems

Year : 2021

Abstract : Crowdsourcing is a cost-effective method that gathers crowd wisdom to solve machine-hard problems. In crowdsourcing systems, requesters post tasks for obtaining reliable solutions. Nevertheless, since workers have various expertise and knowledge background, they probably deliver low-quality and ambiguous submissions. A task aggregation scheme is generally employed in crowdsourcing systems, to deal with this problem. Existing methods mainly focus on structured submissions and also do not consider the cost incurred for completing a task. We exploit features of submissions to improve the task aggregation for proposing a method which is applicable to both structured and unstructured tasks. Moreover, existing probabilistic methods for answer aggregation are sensitive to sparsity. Our approach uses a generative probabilistic model that incorporates similarity in answers along with worker and task features. Thereafter, we present a method for minimizing the cost of tasks, that eventually leverages the quality of answers. We conduct experiments on empirical data that demonstrates the effectiveness of our method compared to state-of-the-art approaches.

Cite this Research Publication : Ayswarya R. Kurup, G. P. Sajeev, J. Swaminathan, "Aggregating Reliable Submissions in Crowdsourcing Systems", in IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 153058-153071, 2021, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3127994.

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