Do Machines Operate Improve Than Humans? Y'all Tin Notice Out Past Times Helping Research!

The 1709 Blog has heard almost an interesting query project on automated notice-and-takedown currently beingness undertaken at the University of Southampton yesteryear PhD student Pei Zhang.

Pei is at i time looking for volunteers to validate her conclusions.

Here's what Pei writes: 

"I am a PhD pupil inwards Computer Science at University of Southampton. I am doing an interdisciplinary query on how technologies tin assistance verify copyright infringing activeness on spider web pages inwards the context of notice-and-take-down procedures. 

I postulate four 6 legal experts alongside a goodness working cognition of intellectual belongings constabulary for the evaluation stage of my system. You are thence invited to get got purpose inwards a unproblematic experiment which volition assistance to refine my system. 

For a to a greater extent than detailed description of my query run across the recent paper I presented at WebSci16’ Conference inwards May.

The experiment takes around 1.5 ii hours. 

During this experiment, each expert will endure given fifteen webpages in addition to fundamental data almost copyright works that may endure accessible through these webpages. Based on your cognition in addition to understanding, you lot are expected to plough over ratings of how probable you lot intend at that spot is a copyright infringement on each webpage in addition to and then to fill upward inwards a Questionnaire to explicate the reasons for your rating. The experiment is carried out anonymously.

You volition have a £40 Amazon voucher and a huge give cheers you for your time in addition to efforts!

Please e-mail me asap at pz2g12@soton.ac.uk with a curt bio (or a link to a curt bio) if you lot get got a flake of spare fourth dimension earlier the halt of September!"