Pushing the boundaries of crowd-enabled databases with query-driven schema expansion
Joachim Selke,Christoph Lofi,Wolf-Tilo Balke +2 more
- Vol. 5, Iss: 6, pp 538-549
TLDR
This paper extends crowd-enabled databases by flexible query-driven schema expansion, allowing the addition of new attributes to the database at query time, and leverages the usergenerated data found in the Social Web to build perceptual spaces.Abstract:
By incorporating human workers into the query execution process crowd-enabled databases facilitate intelligent, social capabilities like completing missing data at query time or performing cognitive operators. But despite all their flexibility, crowd-enabled databases still maintain rigid schemas. In this paper, we extend crowd-enabled databases by flexible query-driven schema expansion, allowing the addition of new attributes to the database at query time. However, the number of crowd-sourced mini-tasks to fill in missing values may often be prohibitively large and the resulting data quality is doubtful. Instead of simple crowd-sourcing to obtain all values individually, we leverage the usergenerated data found in the Social Web: By exploiting user ratings we build perceptual spaces, i.e., highly-compressed representations of opinions, impressions, and perceptions of large numbers of users. Using few training samples obtained by expert crowd sourcing, we then can extract all missing data automatically from the perceptual space with high quality and at low costs. Extensive experiments show that our approach can boost both performance and quality of crowd-enabled databases, while also providing the flexibility to expand schemas in a query-driven fashion.read more
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