Rec'd w/technical glitch. --gw ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 22:54:40 -0400 From: Seungwon Yang <[log in to unmask]> To: Gretchen Whitney <[log in to unmask]> ----------------------------------------- Dear JESSE members, My name is Seungwon Yang, a PhD student in the Dept. of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. I would like to recruit about 5 study participants, who would like to help with labeling keywords (or topics) for 30 textual documents (mainly extracted text of news articles about a disaster). All the communications/conducting study are done online. The results from five completed tasks are used to compute inter-indexer consistency values among humans, and also to evaluate an automatic topic labeling algorithm's performance against human indexers. Upon completion of the tasks, $30 Amazon gift card is provided as compensation. For more information such as example documents, please see: --------------------------------------- (1) Recruitment letter http://spare05.dlib.vt.edu/~seungwon/RecruitmentLetter.pdf (2) Study abstract http://spare05.dlib.vt.edu/~seungwon/StudyAbstract.pdf --------------------------------------- If you are interested in participation or have a question, please email me at <[log in to unmask]>. Thank you very much, Sincerely, Seungwon Yang PhD student Dept. of Computer Science Virginia Tech ------------------------------------------ End of recruiting message