Crowdsourced Databases: Query Processing with People
Summary: Presents Qurk, a crowdsourced DBMS that exposes humans on MTurk as query operators to perform filtering, sorting, joining, and aggregation via HIT workflows. Analyzes execution and optimization challenges unique to human-in-the-loop queries—cost/latency/accuracy tradeoffs, batching, operator design, and techniques to minimize HITs and improve result quality. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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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_cidr11,
address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
series = {{CIDR} '11},
title = {{Crowdsourced Databases: Query Processing with People}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
author = {Marcus, Adam and Wu, Eugene and Karger, David R. and Madden, Samuel and Miller, Robert C.},
year = {2011}
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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 260 | Answering Queries using Humans, Algorithms and Databases | 2011 | CIDR | 0.00022866018 |
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