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Powering interactive intelligent systems with the crowd

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Creating intelligent systems that are able to recognize a user's behavior, understand unrestricted spoken natural language, complete complex tasks, and respond fluently could change the way computers are used in daily life. But fully-automated intelligent systems are a far-off goal -- currently, machines struggle in many real-world settings because problems can be almost entirely unconstrained and can vary greatly between instances. Human computation has been shown to be effective in many of these settings, but is traditionally applied in an offline, batch-processing fashion. My work focuses on a new model of continuous, real-time crowdsourcing that enables interactive crowd-powered systems.

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    UIST '14 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
    October 2014
    150 pages
    ISBN:9781450330688
    DOI:10.1145/2658779
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    1. crowdsourcing
    2. human computation
    3. intelligent systems

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