Cognitive Biases in Crowdsourcing
Carsten Eickhoff · 2018
Crowdsourcing has become a popular paradigm in data curation, annotation and evaluation for many artificial intelligence and information retrieval applications. Considerable efforts have gone into devising effective quality control mechanisms that identify or discourage cheat submissions in an attempt to improve the quality of noisy crowd judgments. Besides purposeful cheating, there is another source of noise that is often alluded to but insufficiently studied: Cognitive biases.