A Needle in a Haystack: An Analysis of High-Agreement Workers on MTurk for Summarization
Lining Zhang, Simon Mille, Yufang Hou, Daniel Deutsch, Elizabeth Clark, Yixin Liu, Saad Mahamood, Sebastian Gehrmann
Abstract
To prevent the costly and inefficient use of resources on low-quality annotations, we want a method for creating a pool of dependable annotators who can effectively complete difficult tasks, such as evaluating automatic summarization. Thus, we investigate the recruitment of high-quality Amazon Mechanical Turk workers via a two-step pipeline. We show that we can successfully filter out subpar workers before they carry out the evaluations and obtain high-agreement annotations with similar constraints on resources. Although our workers demonstrate a strong consensus among themselves and CloudResearch workers, their alignment with expert judgments on a subset of the data is not as expected and needs further training in correctness. This paper still serves as a best practice for the recruitment of qualified annotators in other challenging annotation tasks.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{zhang-etal-2023-needle,
title = "A Needle in a Haystack: An Analysis of High-Agreement Workers on {MT}urk for Summarization",
author = "Zhang, Lining and
Mille, Simon and
Hou, Yufang and
Deutsch, Daniel and
Clark, Elizabeth and
Liu, Yixin and
Mahamood, Saad and
Gehrmann, Sebastian and
Clinciu, Miruna and
Chandu, Khyathi Raghavi and
Sedoc, Jo{\~a}o",
editor = "Rogers, Anna and
Boyd-Graber, Jordan and
Okazaki, Naoaki",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
month = jul,
year = "2023",
address = "Toronto, Canada",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.835/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.835",
pages = "14944--14982"
}