Scalable crisis relief: Crowdsourced SMS translation and categorization with Mission 4636

Proceedings of the 1st ACM Symposium on Computing for Development, DEV 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hester, Vaughn ^a   Shaw, Aaron ^b   Biewald, Lukas ^a  

^a CrowdFlower   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crisis response; Crowdsourcing; Development; Geolocation; Haiti; Human computation; ICTD; Translation

Indexed keywords

CRISIS RESPONSE; CROWDSOURCING; DEVELOPMENT; GEOLOCATIONS; HAITI; HUMAN COMPUTATION; ICTD; TRANSLATION;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; EARTHQUAKES; LAKES; SPACE SHUTTLES;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 79952325377     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1926180.1926199     Document Type: Conference Paper

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