Investigation of Human-Computer Task Markets: Methods and Prototype
Dafna Shahaf, Eric Horvitz · 2009
We present research on task markets where automated planning procedures are used to enlist computational and human expertise to jointly contribute to the solution of problems, based on a consideration of the competencies, availabilities, and pricing of the different problem-solving resources. The methods meld the area of human computation with automated reasoning. We describe a prototype that creates plans for harnessing people and computation to perform translation among multiple languages. With the prototype, people with different skills are recruited to refine rough translations generated by a machine translation system. We present details about the hardness of plan generation, provide methods for solving them, and review experiences with the use of a prototype. 1