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Quality of Information in Mobile Crowdsensing: Survey and Research Challenges
Smartphones have become the most pervasive devices in people's lives, and are
clearly transforming the way we live and perceive technology. Today's
smartphones benefit from almost ubiquitous Internet connectivity and come
equipped with a plethora of inexpensive yet powerful embedded sensors, such as
accelerometer, gyroscope, microphone, and camera. This unique combination has
enabled revolutionary applications based on the mobile crowdsensing paradigm,
such as real-time road traffic monitoring, air and noise pollution, crime
control, and wildlife monitoring, just to name a few. Differently from prior
sensing paradigms, humans are now the primary actors of the sensing process,
since they become fundamental in retrieving reliable and up-to-date information
about the event being monitored. As humans may behave unreliably or
maliciously, assessing and guaranteeing Quality of Information (QoI) becomes
more important than ever. In this paper, we provide a new framework for
defining and enforcing the QoI in mobile crowdsensing, and analyze in depth the
current state-of-the-art on the topic. We also outline novel research
challenges, along with possible directions of future work.Comment: To appear in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN
T-Crowd: Effective Crowdsourcing for Tabular Data
Crowdsourcing employs human workers to solve computer-hard problems, such as
data cleaning, entity resolution, and sentiment analysis. When crowdsourcing
tabular data, e.g., the attribute values of an entity set, a worker's answers
on the different attributes (e.g., the nationality and age of a celebrity star)
are often treated independently. This assumption is not always true and can
lead to suboptimal crowdsourcing performance. In this paper, we present the
T-Crowd system, which takes into consideration the intricate relationships
among tasks, in order to converge faster to their true values. Particularly,
T-Crowd integrates each worker's answers on different attributes to effectively
learn his/her trustworthiness and the true data values. The attribute
relationship information is also used to guide task allocation to workers.
Finally, T-Crowd seamlessly supports categorical and continuous attributes,
which are the two main datatypes found in typical databases. Our extensive
experiments on real and synthetic datasets show that T-Crowd outperforms
state-of-the-art methods in terms of truth inference and reducing the cost of
crowdsourcing
Satirical News Detection and Analysis using Attention Mechanism and Linguistic Features
Satirical news is considered to be entertainment, but it is potentially
deceptive and harmful. Despite the embedded genre in the article, not everyone
can recognize the satirical cues and therefore believe the news as true news.
We observe that satirical cues are often reflected in certain paragraphs rather
than the whole document. Existing works only consider document-level features
to detect the satire, which could be limited. We consider paragraph-level
linguistic features to unveil the satire by incorporating neural network and
attention mechanism. We investigate the difference between paragraph-level
features and document-level features, and analyze them on a large satirical
news dataset. The evaluation shows that the proposed model detects satirical
news effectively and reveals what features are important at which level.Comment: EMNLP 2017, 11 page
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