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Home / Proceedings / Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing

Evaluating Task-Dependent Taxonomies for Navigation

February 1, 2023

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Authors

Yuyin Sun,Adish Singla,Tori Yan,Andreas Krause,Dieter Fox

University of Washington,ETH Zurich,University of Washington,EHT Zurich,University of Washington


DOI:

10.1609/hcomp.v4i1.13286


Abstract:

Taxonomies of concepts are important across many application domains, for instance, online shopping portals use catalogs to help users navigate and search for products. Task-dependent taxonomies, e.g., adapting the taxonomy to a specific cohort of users, can greatly improve the effectiveness of navigation and search. However, taxonomies are usually created by domain experts and hence designing task-dependent taxonomies can be an expensive process: this often limits the applications to deploy generic taxonomies. Crowdsourcing-based techniques have the potential to provide a cost-efficient solution to building task-dependent taxonomies. In this paper, we present the first quantitative study to evaluate the effectiveness of these crowdsourcing based techniques. Our experimental study compares different task-dependent taxonomies built via crowdsourcing and generic taxonomies built by experts. We design randomized behavioral experiments on the Amazon Mechanical Turk platform for navigation tasks using these taxonomies resembling real-world applications such as product search. We record various metrics such as the time of navigation, the number of clicks performed, and the search path taken by a participant to navigate the taxonomy to locate a desired object. Our findings show that task-dependent taxonomies built by crowdsourcing techniques can reduce the navigation time up to $20%$. Our results, in turn,demonstrate the power of crowdsourcing for learning complex structures such as semantic taxonomies.

Topics: HCOMP

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Yuyin Sun,Adish Singla,Tori Yan,Andreas Krause,Dieter Fox Evaluating Task-Dependent Taxonomies for Navigation Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (2016) 229-238.

Yuyin Sun,Adish Singla,Tori Yan,Andreas Krause,Dieter Fox Evaluating Task-Dependent Taxonomies for Navigation HCOMP 2016, 229-238.

Yuyin Sun,Adish Singla,Tori Yan,Andreas Krause,Dieter Fox (2016). Evaluating Task-Dependent Taxonomies for Navigation. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, 229-238.

Yuyin Sun,Adish Singla,Tori Yan,Andreas Krause,Dieter Fox. Evaluating Task-Dependent Taxonomies for Navigation. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing 2016 p.229-238.

Yuyin Sun,Adish Singla,Tori Yan,Andreas Krause,Dieter Fox. 2016. Evaluating Task-Dependent Taxonomies for Navigation. "Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing". 229-238.

Yuyin Sun,Adish Singla,Tori Yan,Andreas Krause,Dieter Fox. (2016) "Evaluating Task-Dependent Taxonomies for Navigation", Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, p.229-238

Yuyin Sun,Adish Singla,Tori Yan,Andreas Krause,Dieter Fox, "Evaluating Task-Dependent Taxonomies for Navigation", HCOMP, p.229-238, 2016.

Yuyin Sun,Adish Singla,Tori Yan,Andreas Krause,Dieter Fox. "Evaluating Task-Dependent Taxonomies for Navigation". Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, 2016, p.229-238.

Yuyin Sun,Adish Singla,Tori Yan,Andreas Krause,Dieter Fox. "Evaluating Task-Dependent Taxonomies for Navigation". Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, (2016): 229-238.

Yuyin Sun,Adish Singla,Tori Yan,Andreas Krause,Dieter Fox. Evaluating Task-Dependent Taxonomies for Navigation. HCOMP[Internet]. 2016[cited 2023]; 229-238.


ISSN: 2769-1349


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