word alignment on Mechanical Turk

[Chris Callison-Burch]

I designed a javascript interface for doing word alignment on Mechanical Turk, if anyone is interested. Here's what it looks like:
http://wiki.github.com/callison-burch/mechanical_turk_workshop/word-alignment

--Chris

[Nitin Madnani]

This is really nice, Chris!

Nitin

[Brendan O'Connor]

impressive!  and looks like you found urdu speakers on AMT too.

brendan
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[Chris Callison-Burch]

Thanks for pointing this out, Gabriel. Does someone want to update the wiki page on GeoLocation with with geoPlugin instead of GeoBytes? Looks like they're preferable for avoiding spamy-redirects.
http://wiki.github.com/callison-burch/mechanical_turk_workshop/geolocation

--Chris

On Feb 18, 2010, at 5:05 PM, Gabriel Parent wrote:

> Chris,
>
> the geolocation service you propose on the wiki, GeoBytes, has an unpleasant way of doing business. Every 50 uses, they redirect one of your user to their ad sites (http://earn-your-degree.com/degree/index.php?ext=70000&fil=all). It's documented here (http://community.postnuke.com/module-Forum-viewtopic-topic-52245.htm) I've deserved a 1/5 on TurkOpticon for that.
>
> The best I've found so far is geoPlugin (http://www.geoplugin.com/webservices/javascript). The functions are trivial (geoplugin_city(), geoplugin_region()). I've used them and it seems to work so far.
>
> If you want, I can make the change on Wiki.
> Gabriel