by bgood | Mar 4, 2015 | banner, crowdsourcing, nlp, sulab, topcoder
There is a TopCoder contest running right now that involves machine learning, crowdsourced data, and natural language processing. There is $41,000 up for grabs! It will be distributed in many smaller prizes so there are plenty of opportunities to win...
by bgood | Feb 20, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, sulab
March 13, 2013 I wrote up an idea in my notebook that I called ‘Pubmed Daily’. The concept was to build a system that would leverage large-scale crowdsourcing/citizen science and machine learning to produce a high-quality, structured representation...
by ginger | Feb 18, 2015 | citizen science, community-annotation, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
Over the weekend, Mark2Curators completed our first Mark2Cure beta experiment. In total, 212 volunteers submitted 10,345 document annotations in just over 4 weeks. Our community ended on a high note, with almost half of the effort contributed in the final week! ...
by ginger | Feb 13, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, sulab
Because of the amazing ways in which our Mark2Curators have contributed, we’re now approaching the end of the beta experiment. Since our last post on Tuesday, we’ve gone from 56% completion to ~80% completion of the beta experiment. THANK YOU,...
by ginger | Feb 10, 2015 | citizen science, collective intelligence, community-annotation, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
Mark2Curators have been busy! Over the weekend, our volunteers brought the current beta experiment from about 28% completion to over 50% completion. We’ve gotten excellent feedback from you and are working to improve on the issues and suggestions you’ve...
by ginger | Feb 6, 2015 | citizen science, collective intelligence, collective wisdom, community intelligence, community-annotation, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
Our beta experiment is now 28% complete thanks to all of you. If you haven’t joined the beta experiment, please join now! We could really use your help to finish this experiment. If you’re hesitant because you don’t have a science background, take...
