Crowdsourcing is a promising approach for Human Factors survey research. We explored
the use of a relatively new crowdsourcing platform called CrowdFlower. Our survey focused …

Crowdsourcing—the employment of ad hoc online labor to perform various tasks—has
become a popular outsourcing vehicle. Our current approach to crowdsourcing—focusing …

Word intuition is speakers' intuitive knowledge on wordhood. Collective word intuition is the
word intuition of the whole language community. Given this definition, the optimal word …

Music listening can address a wide range of needs in everyday life, including enhancing
health and wellbeing. Research on the relationship between music listening and health and …

Empirical linguistic research is driven by linguistic data. However linguistic data collection,
be it corpus annotation, scripture and audio material transcription, survey, or …

The manual Chinese word segmentation dataset WordSegCHC 1.0 which was built by eight
crowdsourcing tasks conducted on the Crowdflower platform contains the manual word …

1.1 Background One of the biggest challenges in machine-learning based state-of-the-art
computational linguistics research is the constant struggle for quality data to train statistical …

In this chapter, we deal with the issue of grammatical acceptability in Mandarin Chinese, and
address a shared concern of all chapters in this volume: how to define the Chinese …

In this chapter, we deal with the issue of sentence acceptability in Chinese. We begin by
making the distinction between the notions of acceptability and grammaticality. While …