Measuring Quality of Workers by Goodness-of-Fit of Machine Learning Model in Crowdsourcing

ABSTRACT In this paper, we propose a method for predicting the quality of crowdsourcing workers using the goodness-of-fit (GoF) of machine learning models. We assume a relationship between the quality of workers and the quality of machine-learning models using the outcomes of the workers as training data. This assumption means that if worker quality is high, a machine-learning classifier constructed using the worker’s outcomes can easily predict the outcomes of the worker. If this assumption is confirmed, we can measure the worker quality without using the correct answer sets, and then the requesters can reduce the time and effort. However, if the outcomes by workers are low quality, the input tweet does not correspond to the outcomes. Therefore, if we construct a tweet classifier using input tweets and the classified results by the worker, the prediction of the outcomes by the classifier and that by the workers should differ. We assume that the GoF scores, such as accuracy and F1 scores of the test set using this classifier, correlates to worker quality. Therefore, we can predict worker quality using the GoF scores. In our experiment, we did the tweet classification task using crowdsourcing. We confirmed that the GoF scores and the quality of workers correlate. These results show that we can predict the quality of workers using the GoF scores.