Demonstration of Qurk: A Query Processor for Human Operators
Summary: Qurk: a declarative query processor for human-involved relational workflows. Automates cost/accuracy/latency tradeoffs in crowdsourced labeling, filtering, and joins; interactive demos for developers and MTurk workers. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Adam Marcus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 2. Eugene Wu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 3. David R. Karger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 4. Samuel Madden (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 5. Robert C. Miller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{marcus_sigmod11,
title = {{Demonstration of Qurk: A Query Processor for Human Operators}},
author = {Marcus, Adam and Wu, Eugene and Karger, David R. and Madden, Samuel and Miller, Robert C.},
series = {{SIGMOD} '11},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/1989323.1989486},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1989323.1989486},
year = {2011}
}
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 933 | Question Selection for Crowd Entity Resolution | 2013 | VLDB | 0.00013004422 |
| 987 | CrowdScreen: Algorithms for Filtering Data with Humans | 2012 | SIGMOD | 0.00012660627 |
| 1,264 | CDAS: A Crowdsourcing Data Analytics System | 2012 | VLDB | 0.0001128316 |
| 1,851 | CrowdDB: Query Processing with the VLDB Crowd | 2011 | VLDB | 9.5037355e-05 |
| 5,250 | An Online Cost Sensitive Decision-Making Method in Crowdsourcing Systems | 2013 | SIGMOD | 6.2097153e-05 |
| 5,878 | CyLog/Crowd4U: A Declarative Platform for Complex Data-centric Crowdsourcing | 2012 | VLDB | 5.9621423e-05 |
| 6,880 | Estimating the Impact of Unknown Unknowns on Aggregate Query Results | 2016 | SIGMOD | 5.6573214e-05 |
| 7,052 | Cost-Effective Data Annotation using Game-Based Crowdsourcing | 2019 | VLDB | 5.6127577e-05 |
| 12,308 | A Confidence-Aware Top-k Query Processing Toolkit on Crowdsourcing | 2017 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
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Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92 | CrowdDB: Answering Queries with Crowdsourcing | 2011 | SIGMOD | 0.00034672523 |
| 257 | Crowdsourced Databases: Query Processing with People | 2011 | CIDR | 0.00022962347 |
| 259 | Answering Queries using Humans, Algorithms and Databases | 2011 | CIDR | 0.00022923243 |
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