Finding Biographical News

We are a language technology research group working on improving the way news is presented to readers. One of the systems we want to build will use Wikipedia to find key news articles about Australian public figures. To build this system, we need example data: Wikipedia pages that have been manually annotated with links to relevant news articles. This is where you come in. Annotating a full document involves inspecting each sentence and deciding if it contains a newsworthy event, and then searching for a news article that reports that event. You will use an annotation tool that we have built to make the task easier, and be given explicit guidelines that describe the annotation task. We will be checking over your annotations and giving you feedback about what we need done differently. This task requires first-rate English fluency as well as good search skills. We particularly encourage bids from freelancers who worked with us successfully on previous projects. The project will be structured as follows. You will bid to complete a set of 20 documents, which we estimate to be roughly 15-20 hours of work. Prior to this, you will complete one document for training (roughly one hour). Please bid your fee and time for the entire 21 documents. We will be hiring multiple people for this project, who will work independent of each other.