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Modeling and mitigating human annotation errors to design efficient stream processing systems with human-in-the-loop machine learning
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High-quality human annotations are necessary for creating effective machine learning-driven stream processing systems. We study hybrid stream processing systems based on a Human-In-The-Loop Machine Learning (HITLML) paradigm, in which one or many human annotators and an automatic classifier (trained at least partially by the human annotators) label an incoming stream of instances. This is typical of many near-real-time social media analytics and web applications, including annotating social media posts during emergencies by digital volunteer groups. From a practical perspective, low-quality human annotations result in wrong labels for retraining automated classifiers and indirectly contribute to the creation of inaccurate classifiers. Considering human annotation as a psychological process allows us to address these limitations. We show that human annotation quality is dependent on the ordering of instances shown to annotators and can be improved by local changes in the instance sequence/order provided to the annotators, yielding a more accurate annotation of the stream. We adapt a theoretically-motivated human error framework of mistakes and slips for the human annotation task to study the effect of ordering instances (i.e., an annotation schedule). Further, we propose an error-avoidance approach to the active learning paradigm for stream processing applications robust to these likely human errors (in the form of slips) when deciding a human annotation schedule. We support the human error framework using crowdsourcing experiments and evaluate the proposed algorithm against standard baselines for active learning via extensive experimentation on classification tasks of filtering relevant social media posts during natural disasters. According to these experiments, considering the order in which data instances are presented to a human annotator leads to increased accuracy for machine learning and awareness of the potential properties of human memory for the class concept, which may affect annotation for automated classifiers. Our results allow the design of hybrid stream processing systems based on the HITL-ML paradigm, which requires the same amount of human annotations, but that has fewer human annotation errors. Automated systems that help reduce human annotation errors could benefit several web stream processing applications, including social media analytics and news filtering.
Keywords:
Human-centered computing
Active learning
Annotation schedule
Memory decay
Human-AI collaboration
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