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Interpretation of Crowdsourced Activities Using Provenance Network Analysis

Interpretation of Crowdsourced Activities Using Provenance Network Analysis
Interpretation of Crowdsourced Activities Using Provenance Network Analysis
Understanding the dynamics of a crowdsourcing application and controlling the quality of the data it generates is challenging, partly due to the lack of tools to do so. Provenance is a domain-independent means to represent what happened in an application, which can help verify data and infer their quality. It can also reveal the processes that led to a data item and the interactions of contributors with it. Provenance patterns can manifest real-world phenomena such as a significant interest in a piece of content, providing an indication of its quality, or even issues such as undesirable interactions within a group of contributors. This paper presents an application-independent methodology for analysing provenance graphs, constructed from provenance records, to learn about such patterns and to use them for assessing some key properties of crowdsourced data, such as their quality, in an automated manner. Validating this method on the provenance records of CollabMap, an online crowdsourcing mapping application, we demonstrated an accuracy level of over 95% for the trust classification of data generated by the crowd therein.
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Huynh, Trung Dong
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Huynh, Trung Dong, Ebden, Mark, Venanzi, Matteo, Ramchurn, Sarvapali, Roberts, Stephen and Moreau, Luc (2013) Interpretation of Crowdsourced Activities Using Provenance Network Analysis. The First AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, Palm Springs, United States. 06 - 09 Nov 2013.

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Abstract

Understanding the dynamics of a crowdsourcing application and controlling the quality of the data it generates is challenging, partly due to the lack of tools to do so. Provenance is a domain-independent means to represent what happened in an application, which can help verify data and infer their quality. It can also reveal the processes that led to a data item and the interactions of contributors with it. Provenance patterns can manifest real-world phenomena such as a significant interest in a piece of content, providing an indication of its quality, or even issues such as undesirable interactions within a group of contributors. This paper presents an application-independent methodology for analysing provenance graphs, constructed from provenance records, to learn about such patterns and to use them for assessing some key properties of crowdsourced data, such as their quality, in an automated manner. Validating this method on the provenance records of CollabMap, an online crowdsourcing mapping application, we demonstrated an accuracy level of over 95% for the trust classification of data generated by the crowd therein.

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Published date: November 2013
Venue - Dates: The First AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, Palm Springs, United States, 2013-11-06 - 2013-11-09
Organisations: Web & Internet Science, Agents, Interactions & Complexity

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Local EPrints ID: 357199
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/357199
ISBN: 978-1-57735-607-3
PURE UUID: c4dc9b17-2e87-4a5f-a4bc-02c8900b52e3
ORCID for Trung Dong Huynh: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4937-2473
ORCID for Sarvapali Ramchurn: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9686-4302
ORCID for Luc Moreau: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3494-120X

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Date deposited: 23 Sep 2013 10:23
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:22

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Author: Trung Dong Huynh ORCID iD
Author: Mark Ebden
Author: Matteo Venanzi
Author: Sarvapali Ramchurn ORCID iD
Author: Stephen Roberts
Author: Luc Moreau ORCID iD

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