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|field_project_name=Amazon mechanical turk requester
|field_project_name=Amazon mechanical turk requester
|field_project_access_URL=https://www.mturk.com/
|field_project_access_URL=https://www.mturk.com/
|field_project_description=According to [ Wikipedia] (nov. 2013), the Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a crowdsourcing Internet marketplace that enables individuals or businesses (known as Requesters) to co-ordinate the use of human intelligence to perform tasks that computers are currently unable to do. It is one of the sites of Amazon Web Services. The Requesters are able to post tasks known as HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks), such as choosing the best among several photographs of a store-front, writing product descriptions, or identifying performers on music CDs. Workers (called Providers in Mechanical Turk's Terms of Service, or, more colloquially, Turkers) can then browse among existing tasks and complete them for a monetary payment set by the Requester. To place HITs, the requesting programs use an open Application Programming Interface, or the more limited MTurk Requester site
|field_purpose_of_project=A platform that allows organizations or individuals to outsource simple tasks (identification, writing, tagging, etc.) to individuals.
While Amazon turk has been primarily designed for industry, it also is used in research, for example in citizen science platforms.
|field_team_leadermm=Amzon
|field_team_leadermm=Amzon
|field_online_development_tools=yes
|field_online_development_tools=yes

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Description [[Has project description::According to [ Wikipedia] (nov. 2013), the Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a crowdsourcing Internet marketplace that enables individuals or businesses (known as Requesters) to co-ordinate the use of human intelligence to perform tasks that computers are currently unable to do. It is one of the sites of Amazon Web Services. The Requesters are able to post tasks known as HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks), such as choosing the best among several photographs of a store-front, writing product descriptions, or identifying performers on music CDs. Workers (called Providers in Mechanical Turk's Terms of Service, or, more colloquially, Turkers) can then browse among existing tasks and complete them for a monetary payment set by the Requester. To place HITs, the requesting programs use an open Application Programming Interface, or the more limited MTurk Requester site]] Purpose A platform that allows organizations or individuals to outsource simple tasks (identification, writing, tagging, etc.) to individuals.

While Amazon turk has been primarily designed for industry, it also is used in research, for example in citizen science platforms.

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