Demo Data from EDBT 2026 / reviewers in the wild / expert
Lydia Gu
dblp:166/8349
· DBLP profile ↗
1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
0since 2021 · last 2015
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Data integration and cleaning · 87% Data mining · 13% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Data integration and cleaning
crowdsourced data processing |
0.2 | 1 | 2015 | Argonaut: Macrotask Crowdsourcing for Complex Data Processing · Proc. VLDB Endow. 2015 |
Data integration and cleaning › data extraction
structured data extraction |
0.2 | 1 | 2015 | Argonaut: Macrotask Crowdsourcing for Complex Data Processing · Proc. VLDB Endow. 2015 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
predictive model of worker quality · 0.2hierarchical review · 0.2active learning · 0.2
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Argonaut: Macrotask Crowdsourcing for Complex Data ProcessingabstractCrowdsourced workflows are used in research and industry to solve a variety of tasks. The databases community has used crowd workers in query operators/optimization and for tasks such as entity resolution. Such research utilizes microtasks where crowd workers are asked to answer simple yes/no or multiple choice questions with little training. Typically, microtasks are used with voting algorithms to combine redundant responses from multiple crowd workers to achieve result quality. Microtasks are powerful, but fail in cases where larger context (e.g., domain knowledge) or significant time investment is needed to solve a problem, for example in large-document structured data extraction. In this paper, we consider context-heavy data processing tasks that may require many hours of work, and refer to such tasks as macrotasks. Leveraging the infrastructure and worker pools of existing crowdsourcing platforms, we automate macrotask scheduling, evaluation, and pay scales. A key challenge in macrotask-powered work, however, is evaluating the quality of a worker's output, since ground truth is seldom available and redundancy-based quality control schemes are impractical. We present Argonaut, a framework that improves macrotask powered work quality using a hierarchical review. Argonaut uses a predictive model of worker quality to select trusted workers to perform review, and a separate predictive model of task quality to decide which tasks to review. Finally, Argonaut can identify the ideal trade-off between a single phase of review and multiple phases of review given a constrained review budget in order to maximize overall output quality. We evaluate an industrial use of Argonaut to power a structured data extraction pipeline that has utilized over half a million hours of crowd worker input to complete millions of macrotasks. We show that Argonaut can capture up to 118% more errors than random spot-check reviews in review budget-constrained environments with up to two review layers. Daniel Haas, Jason Ansel, Lydia Gu, Adam Marcus 0002 |
Proc. VLDB Endow. | 3 |