I forwarded this separately to internally at WMF a few days ago. Clearly – before thinking of building workflows for human contributors to generate captions or rich descriptors of media files in Commons – we should look at what's available in terms of off-the-shelf machine learning services and libraries.
#1 rule of sane citizen science/crowdsourcing projects: don't ask humans to perform tedious tasks machines are pretty good at, get humans to curate inputs and outputs of machines instead.
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On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps of interest: "...We’re making the latest version of our image captioning system available as an open source model in TensorFlow." https://research.googleblog.com/2016/09/show-and-tell- image-captioning-open.html
Pine
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