TurKit
Published 28 June 2009
Greg Little, Lydia B. Chilton, Max Goldman, Robert C. Miller
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Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is an increasingly popular web service for paying people small rewards to do human computation tasks. Current uses of MTurk typically post independent parallel tasks. We are exploring an alternative iterative paradigm, in which workers build on or evaluate each other's work. We describe TurKit, a new toolkit for deploying iterative tasks to MTurk, with a familiar imperative programming paradigm that effectively uses MTurk workers as subroutines.
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