Efficient Online Crowdsourcing with Complex Annotations
Reshef Meir Viet-An Nguyen Xu Chen Jagdish Ramakrishnan Udi Weinsberg
Crowdsourcing platforms use various truth discovery algorithms to aggregate
annotations from multiple labelers. In an online setting, however, the main
challenge is to decide whether to ask for more annotations for each item to
efficiently trade off cost (i.e., the number of annotations) for quality of the
aggregated annotations. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for general
complex annotation (such as bounding boxes and taxonomy paths), that works in
an online crowdsourcing setting. We prove that the expected average similarity
of a labeler is linear in their accuracy \emph{conditional on the reported
label}. This enables us to infer reported label accuracy in a broad range of
scenarios. We conduct extensive evaluations on real-world crowdsourcing data
from Meta and show the effectiveness of our proposed online algorithms in
improving the cost-quality trade-off.