• Mechanical Turk Via Graphical Interface

    Mechanical Turk Via Graphical Interface

    Techtree News Staff, Jul 31, 2008 1800 hrs IST

    Amazon launches web-based business tools that allow businesses to use Mechanical Turk to outsource work via graphical interface.

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Just a day after the launch of two new e-commerce payment services, Amazon has launched a new set of web-based tools that will allow businesses to use Mechanical Turk to outsource work via graphical interface.

Mechanical Turk is a marketplace for work that requires human intelligence (HI). It gives businesses access to a diverse, on-demand, scalable workforce. With the new simplified market place, even non-coders like business managers can submit work that requires HI to a workforce of hundreds of thousands workers from over one hundred countries in just a few minutes, that too, without writing any code.

The new web-based interface guides business users through the process of designing Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs), publishing up to hundreds of thousands of HITs simultaneously, monitoring worker activity, and retrieving work results. Previously, businesses without software development expertise and those without software development resources to spare either needed to individually enter and retrieve each HIT (which was time-consuming) or could not leverage Mechanical Turk for the thousands of tasks they needed done.

In addition, Amazon is also offering sample HIT templates to help creating of tasks. The templates cover the most common uses of Mechanical Turk, such as image tagging, search relevance, data collection, data extraction, surveys, site filtering, image filtering, product comparison, product categorization and data correction. For more details, read this story.
These new web-based tools are available in addition to the existing set of APIs software. These new business tools are available at mturk.com.

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