Conversation Workflows with Micro-breaks in Conversational Crowdsourcing

With the growing popularity of conversational interfaces, new use-cases in which conversation may be an effective medium for human-computer interaction are explored. Recent works have shown how conversational interfaces can improve worker engagement in micro-task crowdsourcing and that task performance is comparable to web-based interfaces. This...

Crowdsourced Knowledge Base Construction using Text-Based Conversational Agents

Knowledge Base Construction (KBC) is a challenging and complex task involving several substeps and many experts of a knowledge domain. Crowdsourcing approach has been used to support KBC with promising scalability and output quality, but to enable even more people to participate in KBC, there is a need to broaden the pool of workers beyond the...

Enabling Human Computation through Text-based Conversational Agents

Human Computation (HC) has established itself to be a powerful tool for carrying out certain simple and repetitive tasks in the form of microtasks, which to this day are still difficult for a machine to automate. <br/>With the latest increase in interest in machine learning, HC has similarly gotten more attention as a popular way to acquire...