MechanicalTurk On Rails Renzo Borgatti

AMooConf 2010, June 5, Rostock

Rails iPhoneAgile Productivity

when cpu power is not enoughand cost is an issue

human intelligence on-demandwith a programmable approach

user generated content thatmust obey rules and restrictions or need classification

visual or graphical aspectsoffensive contentout-of-topics

requester submits a HITproperties: tags, expiration, $$

HIT rendered from a HTML Templateworker accepts the HIT

worker executes the task and earn $$retrieve results when HIT Reviewablerequester pays the worker or rejects

Rails Options

web service call

ruby-aws

RTurk

...

http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-aws

http://github.com/markpercival/rturk

Engine

ModerableModerableModerable TaskProps

Template

CallbackNotify

GetResults

Parser

Ninja Tips

initial performance testsupervised training period

add RAILS_ENV to HIT tagsstub MechanicalTurkRequester

http://http://www.mturk.comhttp://turkers.proboards.comhttp://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSMturkAPI/2008-08-02

http://developer.amazonwebserv ices.com/connect/forum.jspa?forumID=11

http://http://www.mturk.comhttp://turkers.proboards.comhttp://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSMturkAPI/2008-08-02http://developer.amazonwebserv ices.com/connect/forum.jspa?forumID=11

Mereborg AT reborg.net@reborghttp://reborg.nethttp://github.com/reborg

The Talk

http://amoocon.de/talks/133

http://www.slideshare.net/reborg/mechanical-turk-onrails

http://speakerrate.com/talks/3383-mechanical-turk-on-rails

http://http://www.mturk.comhttp://turkers.proboards.comhttp://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSMturkAPI/2008-08-02http://developer.amazonwebserv ices.com/connect/forum.jspa?forumID=11

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