Improving the design of intelligent acquisition interfaces for collecting world knowledge from web contributors

  • Authors:
  • Timothy Chklovski;Yolanda Gil

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA;University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Knowledge capture
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

An emerging approach to knowledge acquisition is to collect statements from volunteer contributors over the Web. In this approach, the design of the acquisition interface is key to focusing on statements of interest, avoiding spurious entries, retaining the contributors, etc. Several such volunteer-contribution-based systems have been deployed to date, each with its own idiosyncratic interface. This paper discusses some key challenges faced by volunteer collection interfaces, and outlines the design features that we have found effective in addressing some aspects of those challenges. The paper discusses how these features have been implemented in deployed collection systems, and reflects on the data collected to extract lessons for future work in this research area.