Examples of using Human computation in English and their translations into Hungarian
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Human computation(Section 5.2).
Table 5.1: Examples of human computation projects in social research.
Human computation enables you to have a thousand research assistants.
Galaxy Zoo is a good illustration of how many human computation projects evolve.
Create a human computation project to see if the ratio of women to men on the cover has increased over time.
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(2010) turned Galaxy Zoo into what I would call a second-generation human computation system.
Human computation projects combine the work of many non-experts to solve easy-task-big-scale problems.
This comparison shows that, as with Galaxy Zoo, human computation projects can produce high quality results.
In the human computation projects that I have discussed in the chapter, participants were aware of what was happening.
Finally, the examples in this section show that human computation can have a democratizing impact on science.
In the human computation problems described in the previous section, the researchers knew how to solve the problems given sufficient time.
This table shows that, unlike Galaxy Zoo, many other human computation projects use micro-task labor markets(e.g., Amazon Mechanical Turk).
Two clever human computation projects that I did not have space to discuss are the ESP Game(Ahn and Dabbish 2004) and reCAPTCHA(Ahn et al. 2008).
In particular, I think it ishelpful to roughly distinguish between three types of projects: human computation, open call, and distributed data collection(figure 5.1).
Computer-assisted human computation systems also use machine learning in order to amplify the human effort.
However, Benoit and colleagues were able to use their human computation system to do this coding- customized to their research question- quickly and easily.
Human computation projects combine the work of many non-experts to solve easy-task-big-scale problems that are not easily solved by computers.
However, Benoit and colleagues were able to use their human computation system to do this coding- customized to their research question- quickly and easily.
Human computation projects combine the efforts of many people working on simple micro-tasks in order to solve problems that are impossibly big for one person.
Researchers interested in creating what I have called computer-assisted human computation systems(e.g., systems that use human labels to train a machine learning model) might be interested in Shamir et al.
For example, in the human computation project described below, the same recipe will be followed, but the apply and combine steps will be quite different.
Researchers interested in creating what I have called computer-assisted human computation systems(e.g., systems that use human labels to train a machine learning model) might be interested in Shamir et al.
Further, because the human computation was quick and cheap, it was easy for them to customize their data collection to their specific research question about immigration.
Second, by some definitions of human computation(e.g., Ahn(2005)),Foldit should be considered a human computation project.
For example, in the human computation project described below, the same recipe will be followed, but the apply and combine steps will be quite different.
In addition to creating human computation and open call projects, researchers can also create distributed data collection projects.
Further, because the human computation was quick and cheap, it was easy for them to customize their data collection to their specific research question about immigration.
In social research, human computation projects are most likely to be used in situations where researchers want to classify, code, or label images, video, or texts.
The advantage of this computer-assisted human computation system is that it enables you to handle essentially infinite amounts of data using only a finite amount of human effort.
Galaxy Zoo, and other human computation projects, typically use a split-apply-combine strategy(Wickham 2011), and once you understand this strategy you will be able to use it to solve lots of problems.