Mechanical Tsar

Mechanical Tsar is an engine for running a highly customizable hosted crowdsourcing platform controlling the entire annotation process including such elements as task allocation, worker ranking and result aggregation. Read the About page for details and the TODO page for research ideas.

Happy Users

The engine is successfully used by several research projects:

• Yet Another RussNet, a large open WordNet-like thesaurus for Russian through crowdsourcing, founded in 2013
• RUSSE, the first international workshop on Russian semantic similarity evaluation, founded in 2014

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Latest News

• Jul 7, 2019 Project Halted
• Jul 12, 2017 Mechanical Tsar at the BRICS Young Scientist Forum
• Feb 4, 2017 Boyarin Activity Tracking
• May 22, 2016 Updatable Stages
• Apr 7, 2016 API Break: Stages Path

Other news are available on the Posts page. Also, we have an RSS feed.

Get Started

The simplest way to start using Mechanical Tsar is pulling our Docker image. Just consult our Running on Docker guide to get started. It is also possible to deploy the engine on Heroku, on systemd and on a regular Linux box.

More documentation is available in English on GitHub Wiki and on NLPub in Russian.

Citation

If you publish work that uses Mechanical Tsar, please cite it as follows.

• Ustalov, D.: A Crowdsourcing Engine for Mechanized Labor. Proceedings of the Institute for System Programming, Vol. 27(3), 351–364 (2015)

@article{Ustalov:15:ispras,
  author    = {Ustalov, Dmitry},
  title     = {{A Crowdsourcing Engine for Mechanized Labor}},
  journal   = {Proceedings of the Institute for System Programming},
  pages     = {351--364},
  volume    = {27},
  number    = {3},
  year      = {2015},
  address   = {Moscow, Russia},
  publisher = {ISP RAS},
  issn      = {2220-6426},
  doi       = {10.15514/ISPRAS-2015-27(3)-25},
  language  = {english},
}