The ever-increasing number of Internet users and online services, such as Amazon, Twitter
and Facebook has rapidly motivated people to not just transact using the Internet but to also …

Crowdsourcing is an emerging collaborative approach that can be used for the acquisition of
annotated corpora and a wide range of other linguistic resources. Although the use of this …

Although the field has led to promising early results, the use of crowdsourcing as an integral
part of science projects is still regarded with skepticism by some, largely due to a lack of …

Sentiment lexicons in the English language are widely accessible while in many other
languages, these resources are extremely deficient. Current techniques and methods for …

This paper proposes a design for a gamified crowdsourcing workflow to extract annotation
from medical text. Developed in the context of a general crowdsourcing platform, Dr …

In this paper, we describe a set of reusable text processing components for extracting
opinionated information from social media, rating it for interestingness, and for detecting …

Building sentiment analysis resources is a fundamental step before developing any
sentiment analysis model. Sentiment lexicons are one of these critical resources. However …

During the past decade, there were rapid developments on the internet, computing
technologies, and widespread use of location-aware technologies such as GPS and mobile …

This paper presents the uComp Language Quiz, an online application in the tradition of
games with a purpose for language resource acquisition. It is based on the human …

Abstract Machine learning can still make harmful mistakes. A solution would be tacit
knowledge. Machine learning needs this type of knowledge to improve. An example of such …