Entry Date:
August 28, 2012

Qurk Project

Principal Investigator Robert Miller

Co-investigators David Karger , Samuel Madden


Crowdsourcing platforms such as Amazon's Mechanical Turk make it possible to organize crowd workers to perform tasks like translation or image labelling on demand. Building these workflows is challenging: how much should you pay crowd workers? can you trust the output of each worker? how can you coordinate workers to perform complicated high-level tasks? Qurk helps you build crowd-powered data processing workflows using a PIG-like language while tackling these challenges on your behalf.