Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow

Questions tagged [mechanicalturk]

Mechanical Turk is crowd sourcing web-service by Amazon Web Services. It provides a marketplace for tasks that can be performed by humans. Requesters publish HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks) that are performed by Workers. AWS provides web based API to create and manage HITs.

Amazon Web Services provides a Requester API and several software development kits for accessing the MTurk API via popular programming languages, including Ruby, .NET, Java, and Python.

The Requester API can also be accessed through:

Documentation:

487 questions
6
votes
0 answers

Create a MTurk HIT from an existing template

I'm using the Python AWS package boto v2.7 to interact with the Mturk API to create and manage HIT's etc. I'm getting stuck when trying to create a HIT using an existing template. Amazon's documentation on the topic is here:…
ChrisArmstrong
  • 2,491
  • 8
  • 37
  • 60
6
votes
1 answer

Obtaining HIT Id while creating HIT in Amazon Mturk using Boto

I'm working on a project in Amazon Mturk. Im using the Python Boto API . The boto.connection.create_HIT() method returns an object of ResultSet from which I am trying to get the HIT Id . I also used Response Groups like 'HITDetail',…
Hisham Ibrahim
  • 194
  • 10
6
votes
1 answer

Mechanical Turk API: Why is HITReviewStatus always "NotReviewed"?

Even after all the "Assigments" for a HIT have been manually reviewed and "accepted" via the Amazon Mturk UI, the HIT still shows a HITReviewStatus of "NotReviewed"? Has any else noticed this? When does the HITReviewStatus change for a given…
Linda
  • 143
  • 1
  • 7
5
votes
1 answer

How was "ten thousand cents" implemented?

How was ten thousand cents implemented? I am particularly interested in the implementation of the interface that accepted the drawings from the user? Are there libraries available that facilitate this?
carrier
  • 32,209
  • 23
  • 76
  • 99
5
votes
0 answers

(Amazon Mechanical Turk) Is it possible to place multiple crowdforms in 1 HIT?

I am trying to create HITs as a requester for relevancy check: ie have the worker select how relevant given data1 is to given data2. I would like to ask in a set of 3 relevancy checks because there are 3 of data2 for each data1. I remember seeing a…
laboon
  • 113
  • 3
5
votes
1 answer

HITs created with create_hit with externalQuestion using boto3, not visible at requester's account

I'm a novice mturk user. I created HITs for crowdsourcing using external question hosted on a server. I wanted to know if there is a web interface where I can see progress of my HITs. I tried looking at the https://requester.mturk.com/manage and…
Utkarsh Mall
  • 324
  • 3
  • 12
5
votes
2 answers

MTurk HITs created Through Java API are not showing on Manage Tab on UI

I am creating HITs on MTurk Sandbox using JAVA API. I am able to create HITs and also work on it by searching through worker UI. But those hits are not showing up in the "Manage" tab of the requester UI.
sukhwant prafullit
  • 351
  • 1
  • 4
  • 12
5
votes
1 answer

How to connect to mturk sandbox with boto3

How to specify the mTurk sandbox host. In boto this was done with connection, but I don't see that in the boto3 API. this is boto connection = MTurkConnection(aws_access_key_id=AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, …
mcwizard
  • 451
  • 5
  • 15
5
votes
3 answers

Amazon Mechanical Turk API. Example Creating a HIT from PHP

I need to create a HIT using the Amazon Mechanical Turk API from PHP. There's no examples at the official documentation and no PHP librearies or SDK. Does anyone know how to do this? any kind of help is appreciated, a PHP example will be great.
Agustin
  • 51
  • 1
  • 2
5
votes
0 answers

Create MTurk Hit in R using the CreateHTMLQuestion Command

I would like to Create a Mechanical Turk Hit by using the MTurK Package in R. The R code I am using is the following: filecontent <- GenerateHTMLQuestion(file="file.html") print(filecontent) #filestring <- filecontent [["string"]] #filestring <-…
user2206985
  • 313
  • 1
  • 3
  • 7
5
votes
1 answer

AWS Command Line Tools need recoding for secure login?

The AWS command line tools appear to be broken on both Linux (Ubuntu PP) and Windows (7). In both cases, after setting up the login credentials correctly and trying to run the most basic tool (getBalance.sh), I get a failure to authenticate. An…
Ari B. Friedman
  • 71,271
  • 35
  • 175
  • 235
4
votes
1 answer

Confusion defining the Main-Class in ant for bundling a jar

I'm trying to construct a jar file using the Amazon Mechanical Turk API. The SDK comes with a helloworld file that I'm trying to jar up as a sanity check - it is located here: http://aws.amazon.com/code/SDKs/695 After setting everything up, I'm…
alexplanation
  • 1,468
  • 14
  • 18
4
votes
0 answers

MTurk external Survey Link. Add Worker-ID to URL

I am trying to crate an external survey link on MTurk. The Idea is that a worker enters my page and solves a bunch of tasks until he clicks a "leave"-Button, that generates a unique token. My problem is that I need to add his worker-ID to my link.…
Peter Met
  • 113
  • 5
4
votes
1 answer

MissingRequiredParameter: Missing required key 'FunctionName' in params

I'm working on a supervised machine learning problem, and I am setting up a custom labeling task to send out to Amazon Mechanical Turk for human annotation. I have uploaded the data to AWS S3 in the json-lines (.jsonl) format as follows, pursuant to…
wesk
  • 998
  • 1
  • 11
  • 15
4
votes
1 answer

Submission Validation with the Crowd Template on MTurk

I have a mturk survey and would like to validate the results when clicking the submit button. I found out there is one way discussed here. However, that does not seem to work. Does anyone have any idea? My code (JS part):
Mr.cysl
  • 1,494
  • 6
  • 23
  • 37
1
2
3
…
32 33