Crowdsourcing StoryLines: Harnessing the Crowd for Causal Relation Annotation

Tommaso Caselli, Oana Inel


Abstract
This paper describes a crowdsourcing experiment on the annotation of plot-like structures in English news articles. CrowdThruth methodology and metrics have been applied to select valid annotations from the crowd. We further run an in-depth analysis of the annotated data by comparing them with available expert data. Our results show a valuable use of crowdsourcing annotations for such complex semantic tasks, and suggest a new annotation approach which combine crowd and experts.
Anthology ID:
W18-4306
Volume:
Proceedings of the Workshop Events and Stories in the News 2018
Month:
August
Year:
2018
Address:
Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A
Editors:
Tommaso Caselli, Ben Miller, Marieke van Erp, Piek Vossen, Martha Palmer, Eduard Hovy, Teruko Mitamura, David Caswell, Susan W. Brown, Claire Bonial
Venue:
EventStory
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
44–54
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W18-4306
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Cite (ACL):
Tommaso Caselli and Oana Inel. 2018. Crowdsourcing StoryLines: Harnessing the Crowd for Causal Relation Annotation. In Proceedings of the Workshop Events and Stories in the News 2018, pages 44–54, Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Crowdsourcing StoryLines: Harnessing the Crowd for Causal Relation Annotation (Caselli & Inel, EventStory 2018)
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Code
 CrowdTruth/Crowdsourcing-StoryLines
Data
FrameNet