EasyTurk: A User-Friendly Interface for High-Quality Linguistic Annotation with Amazon Mechanical Turk

Lorenzo Bocchi, Valentino Frasnelli, Alessio Palmero Aprosio


Abstract
Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) has recently become one of the most popular crowd-sourcing platforms, allowing researchers from all over the world to create linguistic datasets quickly and at a relatively low cost. Amazon provides both a web interface and an API for AMT, but they are not very user-friendly and miss some features that can be useful for NLP researchers. In this paper, we present EasyTurk, a free tool that improves the potential of Amazon Mechanical Turk by adding to it some new features. The tool is free and released under an open source license.
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2021.eacl-demos.13
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Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
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April
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2021
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Online
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EACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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106–112
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-demos.13
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.eacl-demos.13
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Lorenzo Bocchi, Valentino Frasnelli, and Alessio Palmero Aprosio. 2021. EasyTurk: A User-Friendly Interface for High-Quality Linguistic Annotation with Amazon Mechanical Turk. In Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pages 106–112, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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EasyTurk: A User-Friendly Interface for High-Quality Linguistic Annotation with Amazon Mechanical Turk (Bocchi et al., EACL 2021)
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