Evaluating human versus machine learning performance in classifying research abstracts

• Main Authors: Goh, Yeow Chong, Cai, Xin Qing, Theseira, Walter, Ko, Giovanni, Khor, Khiam Aik
• 其他作者: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• 格式: Article
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2021
• 主題: Engineering::Mechanical engineering; Discipline Classifcation; Text Classifcation
• 在線閱讀: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/154620
• 機構: Nanyang Technological University

We study whether humans or machine learning (ML) classification models are better at classifying scientific research abstracts according to a fixed set of discipline groups. We recruit both undergraduate and postgraduate assistants for this task in separate stages, and compare their performance agai...