Analyzing the amazon mechanical turk marketplace
PG Ipeirotis - XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM magazine for students, 2010 - dl.acm.org
XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM magazine for students, 2010•dl.acm.org
Analyzing the Amazon Mechanical Turk marketplace Page 1 XRDS • Win t er 2010 • Vol.17 •
no.2 16 AMT is also a marketplace for small tasks that cannot be easily automated. For
example, humans can tell if two different descriptions correspond to the same product, can
easily tag an image with descriptions of its content, or can easily transcribe with high quality an
audio snippet—though all those tasks are extremely difficult for computers to do. Using
Mechanical Turk, computers can use a programmable API to post tasks on the marketplace …
no.2 16 AMT is also a marketplace for small tasks that cannot be easily automated. For
example, humans can tell if two different descriptions correspond to the same product, can
easily tag an image with descriptions of its content, or can easily transcribe with high quality an
audio snippet—though all those tasks are extremely difficult for computers to do. Using
Mechanical Turk, computers can use a programmable API to post tasks on the marketplace …
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.