Finding Patterns in Noisy Crowds: Regression-based Annotation Aggregation for Crowdsourced Data

Natalie Parde, Rodney Nielsen


Abstract
Crowdsourcing offers a convenient means of obtaining labeled data quickly and inexpensively. However, crowdsourced labels are often noisier than expert-annotated data, making it difficult to aggregate them meaningfully. We present an aggregation approach that learns a regression model from crowdsourced annotations to predict aggregated labels for instances that have no expert adjudications. The predicted labels achieve a correlation of 0.594 with expert labels on our data, outperforming the best alternative aggregation method by 11.9%. Our approach also outperforms the alternatives on third-party datasets.
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D17-1204
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Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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September
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2017
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Copenhagen, Denmark
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Martha Palmer, Rebecca Hwa, Sebastian Riedel
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EMNLP
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SIGDAT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1907–1912
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https://aclanthology.org/D17-1204
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10.18653/v1/D17-1204
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Natalie Parde and Rodney Nielsen. 2017. Finding Patterns in Noisy Crowds: Regression-based Annotation Aggregation for Crowdsourced Data. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 1907–1912, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Finding Patterns in Noisy Crowds: Regression-based Annotation Aggregation for Crowdsourced Data (Parde & Nielsen, EMNLP 2017)
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