Crowdsourcing Preposition Sense Disambiguation with High Precision via a Priming Task

Shira Wein, Nathan Schneider


Abstract
The careful design of a crowdsourcing protocol is critical to eliciting highly accurate annotations from untrained workers. In this work, we explore the development of crowdsourcing protocols for a challenging word sense disambiguation task. We find that (a) selecting a similar example usage can serve as a proxy for selecting an explicit definition of the sense, and (b) priming workers with an additional, related task within the HIT improves performance on the main proxy task. Ultimately, we demonstrate the usefulness of our crowdsourcing elicitation technique as an effective alternative to previously investigated training strategies, which can be used if agreement on a challenging task is low.
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2022.dash-1.3
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Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Data Science with Human-in-the-Loop (Language Advances)
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December
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2022
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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid)
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Eduard Dragut, Yunyao Li, Lucian Popa, Slobodan Vucetic, Shashank Srivastava
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DaSH
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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15–22
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Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider. 2022. Crowdsourcing Preposition Sense Disambiguation with High Precision via a Priming Task. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Data Science with Human-in-the-Loop (Language Advances), pages 15–22, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid). Association for Computational Linguistics.
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