title: Crowdsourcing and curation: perspectives from biology and natural language processing.
abstract: Crowdsourcing is increasingly utilized for performing tasks in both natural language processing and biocuration. Although there have been many applications of crowdsourcing in these fields, there have been fewer high-level discussions of the methodology and its applicability to biocuration. This paper explores crowdsourcing for biocuration through several case studies that highlight different ways of leveraging 'the crowd'; these raise issues about the kind(s) of expertise needed, the motivations of participants, and questions related to feasibility, cost and quality. The paper is an outgrowth of a panel session held at BioCreative V (Seville, September 9-11, 2015). The session consisted of four short talks, followed by a discussion. In their talks, the panelists explored the role of expertise and the potential to improve crowd performance by training; the challenge of decomposing tasks to make them amenable to crowdsourcing; and the capture of biological data and metadata through community editing.Database URL: http://www.mitre.org/publications/technical-papers/crowdsourcing-and-curation-perspectives.
authors: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA, USA lynette@mitre.org.
authors: Lynette
authors: L
authors: Hirschman
authors: University of Paris-Sorbonne/STIH Team, Paris, France.
authors: Karën
authors: K
authors: Fort
authors: Philip Morris International R&D, Philip Morris Products S.A., Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
authors: Stéphanie
authors: S
authors: Boué
authors: Joint Genome Institute, Walnut, Creek, CA, USA.
authors: Nikos
authors: N
authors: Kyrpides
authors: National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
authors: Rezarta
authors: R
authors: Islamaj Doğan
authors: University of Colorado, School of Medicine, Denver, CO, USA.
authors: Kevin Bretonnel
authors: KB
authors: Cohen
mesh_terms: D063045:Crowdsourcing; D066289:Data Curation / Q000379:methods*; D000071253:Metadata; D009323:Natural Language Processing