Students or Mechanical Turk: Who Are the More Reliable Social Media Data Labelers?

Lisa Singh, Rebecca Vanarsdall, Yanchen Wang, Carole Gresenz

2022

Abstract

For social media related machine learning tasks, having reliable data labelers is important. However, it is unclear whether students or Mechanical Turk workers would be better data labelers on these noisy, short posts. This paper compares the reliability of students and Mechanical Turk workers for a series of social media data labeling tasks. In general, we find that for most tasks, the Mechanical Turk workers have stronger agreement than the student workers. When we group labeling tasks based on difficulty, we find more consistency for Mechanical Turk workers across labeling tasks than student workers. Both these findings suggest that using Mechanical Turk workers for labeling social media posts leads to more reliable labeling than college students.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Singh L., Vanarsdall R., Wang Y. and Gresenz C. (2022). Students or Mechanical Turk: Who Are the More Reliable Social Media Data Labelers?. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications - Volume 1: DATA, ISBN 978-989-758-583-8, pages 408-415. DOI: 10.5220/0011278600003269

in Bibtex Style

@conference{data22,
author={Lisa Singh and Rebecca Vanarsdall and Yanchen Wang and Carole Gresenz},
title={Students or Mechanical Turk: Who Are the More Reliable Social Media Data Labelers?},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications - Volume 1: DATA,},
year={2022},
pages={408-415},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011278600003269},
isbn={978-989-758-583-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications - Volume 1: DATA,
TI - Students or Mechanical Turk: Who Are the More Reliable Social Media Data Labelers?
SN - 978-989-758-583-8
AU - Singh L.
AU - Vanarsdall R.
AU - Wang Y.
AU - Gresenz C.
PY - 2022
SP - 408
EP - 415
DO - 10.5220/0011278600003269