Have you made interesting use of Mechanical Turk?
I would like to hear about interesting projects which made use of Amazon's Mechanical Turk. ...
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Mechanical Turk: Using HTML in the API
Question for anyone who's used Mechanical Turk: Is it possible to take an HTML template created on Mechanical Turk's website, and then create more HITs based on that template from the command line tools or API? According to the API docs, it's not possible to create new HTML and add it...from the API. However, what I want to do here i...
Application internationalization/translation experience using crowd-sourcing? Mechanical Turk?
I have developed a web application using internationalization best practices such as putting all my displayable strings in property files, etc, etc. I would like to have the strings in the property files translated into 5 different languages. Does anyone have any experience using Mechanical Turk or another crowd sourcing service for la...
Using Amazon MechanicalTurk if location != US?
Amazon Mechanical Turk is a mass-micro outsourcing API, where you can get lots's of small simple tasks (e.g."Is there a shop in this image") done relatively cheaply (e.g. 0.10 U$ per image). Amazon seems to assume that this service is mostly of interest to US companies. This results in difficulties if you want to use the service (as an ...
Are there alternatives to Amazon's Mechanical Turk not restricted to US?
If I could, I would love to try out Mechanical Turk. Unfortunately, it is limited to American Requesters. Are there alternatives? ...
How was "ten thousand cents" implemented?
How was ten thousand cents implemented? I am particularly interested in the implementation of the interface that accepted the drawings from the user? Are there libraries available that facilitate this? ...
How can I fix Net::Amazon::MechanicalTurk's failing tests?
I'm using Perl 5.10.0 on Debian Linux (testing) and trying to install the Perl module Net::Amazon::MechanicalTurk version 1.01. When I run the module's test suite, I get errors such as the following: t/01-ListOperations.......................Can't locate object method "new" via package "Net::Amazon::MechanicalTurk::Transport::RESTTran...
Mechanical Turk tutorials or how-to guides
Hello, does anybody know of any tutorials/resources that discuss integrating Amazon's Mechanical Turk and Rails? (besides those resources that Amazon already provides) Thanks! ...
Mechanical Turk File Upload
I'm trying to test file uploads on Mechanical Turk. I'm calling the GetFileUploadURL service and my query string looks something like this: Operation=GetFileUploadURL&AssignmentId=XXX&Signature=XXX&Version=2008-08-02&AWSAccessKeyId=XXX&Timestamp=2009-07-11T18%3A33%3A03-04%3A00&QuestionIdentifier=smiley&HITId=XXX&Service=AWSMechanicalT...
Knowing the selections made on a 'multichooser' box in a mechanical turk hit (using Command Line Tools)
Hi All, I am new to Amazon Mechanical Turk, and wanted to create a hit with a qualification task. I am using the command line tools interface. One of the questions in my qualification task involves users selecting a number of options. I use a 'multichooser' selection type. Now I want to grade the responses based on the selections, where...
Convert graph in to data points using Mechanical Turk?
I looked around but did not see anyone using Mechanical Turk for this. I've heard of the service, but never used it before. I need to take the following graph and digitize it so I get a list of data points for each line (noting that there are two Y-axes, and thus depends on which line we are talking about). This is pretty time consumi...
In Mechanical Turk, how do you limit to one HIT per worker
Hi all, I know from communication with Mechanical Turk workers that there is a way to limit the number of HITs a specific worker can complete, but I cant figure out how to do it. Any help would be greatly appreciated! ...
How do I accept a file upload on Mechanical Turk?
I have a HIT on Mechanical Turk that requires a file upload of an MP3 file. <h2>Upload your file here</h2> <input type="file" name="audiofile" /> <input type="submit" /> When I review the results from my HIT, mechanical turk will give me the filename but no upload path or link to download the file. How can I download the file that ...
How do you specify the requester's workerID in a mechanical turk HIT?
I want to create an mturk HIT that has a URL like so: www.example.com?source=worker_id where worker_id is the worker's ID code. I'm initially going to create these from the mturk web UI, then once I get it working right, from PHP. But I can't figure out how to get at the worker's ID from the modified-HTML syntax of an mturk HIT. ...
How to dynamically control the size of a HIT in Amazon Mechanical Turk?
I'm posting search relevance evaluation task. Basically I'll provide a query and a bunch of URLs which may or may not be relevant. Turkers need point out which ones are relevant and which ones are not. To not to bother Turkers to click on the url and comme back again,I've put "iframe"s in the HIT. But since there are 25 urls in a HIT, i...
Mechanical Turk: Post file to externalSubmit interface?
I have setup my own custom form for mechanical turk and am posting to their external interface. <form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="https://workersandbox.mturk.com/mturk/externalSubmit" method="post" name="mturk_form" id="mturk_form"> <p> <label for="turk_task_image_image">Upload an image</label><br> ...
Amazon Mechanical Turk API. Example Creating a HIT from PHP
I need to create a HIT using the Amazon Mechanical Turk API from PHP. There's no examples at the official documentation and no PHP librearies or SDK. Does anyone know how to do this? any kind of help is appreciated, a PHP example will be great. ...
What would be a reasonable expectation for job turnaround on Mechanical Turk?
Has anyone had any success with using Mechnical Turk with large volumes of jobs (100,000 jobs per day+)? We are looking at the possibility of using MT to analyse the sentiment of a large (ongoing) volume of content, but have concerns about the feasibility of doing so, and if there would be enough 'manpower' to turn it around quickly enou...
Is there a utility to help me make lists with Mechanical Turk?
Say I have a mturk task such as follows: 1) Find a website about lawn chairs. 2) Send me the URL. And I want 500 mturkers to work on this. How do I ensure that they give me unique URLs that no one else has submitted? Is there some easy way to accomplish this? ...
Mechanical Turk / Cmd line tools / Qualification / #set and #foreach in xml
Hi, in Amazon Mechanical Turk command line tools (I have aws-mturk-clt-1.3.0), in one of the samples (site_filter_qual: "Website Filtering Qualification", file site_filter_qual.question), there is code looking something like this: #set( $urls = [ "http://news.bbc.co.uk/", http://..., ...]) #foreach ( $url in $urls ) ... I am wonderin...