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HS Talkoot: Microtask to the rescue of Finnish media history
September 5, 2011… lots of mistakes when reading text that has deteriorated or is typed in old fonts. This is where human intelligence (especially our innate ability to understand signs) is needed to set the record straight.
Gamifying media
If this sounds noble but boring, don’t panic. That’s not how we run things. HS Talkoot is structured as an online game. Once you’ve logged in using your Facebook account or email address, you can challenge friends and other players for the highest score in a game …
Microtask: we love the forms you hate
May 11, 2011… try “quick sorting” a full filing cabinet). Humankind has sent robots to Mars, mapped the human genome and even (in just 11 years) tracked down Osama Bin Laden. So why is the paperless office still such an impossible dream?
As you probably know by now, here at Microtask we take productivity seriously. We spent many long days and sleepless nights wrestling with this data-based dilemma. Finally we emerged, red-eyed and over-caffeinated but victorious. Ladies and gentlemen, we …
Tags: crowd crowdsourcing digitizing Filing cabinet human iPad iPhone Mars Microsoft Excel microtask forms microwork Osama Bin Laden paper forms Paperless office structured data
crowd, crowdsourcing, digitizing, Filing cabinet, human, iPad, iPhone, Mars, Microsoft Excel, microtask forms, microwork, Osama Bin Laden, paper forms, Paperless office, structured data | 1 CommentA (cryptic) case for the crowd
May 9, 2011… unbreakable. But the history of cryptography (and computing) is rich in examples of “amateur intelligence” breakthroughs.
During World War II, amateur cryptologists were among the team that helped crack the famous German Enigma code. Interestingly, these 1940s code breakers left behind a massive archive of (some still encrypted) papers which are only now being digitized. The Bletchley Park Museum, which owns the archive, sadly won’t be “gamesourcing” the digitization …
2011: a crowded year
May 4, 2011… me CEO”) Ville Miettinen. Check out Crowdconvention.com for more details.
HCOMP 2011
The Human Computation Workshop is this year’s third go-to industry event. HCOMP 2011 kicks off around August 8th in San Francisco. Primarily a research conference, organizers include crowdsourcing pioneer (and certified genius) Luis von Ahn and (in)famous Mechanical Turk blogger Panagiotis Ipeirotis. HCOMP 2011 (which is part of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence Conference) …
SpeakerText: serious about subtitles
March 23, 2011… proposed a third way (cue drum roll and dry ice). The company claims to “combine artificial and human intelligence to offer low-cost, high-quality video transcription”.
SpeakerText breaks the transcription process into a series of crowd and machine based tasks. First, speech-recognition software splits a video into 10-second chunks. These chunks are then (no prizes for guessing the next step) transcribed by Mechanical Turk workers. Finally, editors stick the whole thing back together …
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