[Asis-l] FW: 1st CFP: ACM WSDM 2011 Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Search and DataMining

[Junus, Ranti]

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CFP: Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Search and Data Mining (CSDM 2011)
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To be held in conjunction with the Fourth ACM International Conference 
on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2011)

Call For Papers: http://ir.ischool.utexas.edu/csdm2011/papers.html

Subscribe to workshop listserv: http://groups.google.com/group/csdm-2011

We invite submissions of papers describing novel, unpublished research 
addressing one or more of the following areas:

* Theoretical, experimental, and/or methodological developments 
advancing state-of-the-art knowledge of crowdsourcing for search or data

mining

* Applications of search or data mining related crowdsourcing.

* Tutorials on how the different forms of crowdsourcing might be best 
suited to or best executed in evaluating different search or data mining

tasks

* New software packages which simplify or otherwise improve general 
support for crowdsourcing, or particular support for related 
crowdsourced tasks (e.g. TurkIt, qmturk, Turk Surveyor, etc.)

* Reflective or forward-looking vision on use of crowdsourcing in this
area

The workshop especially calls for innovative ideas for better using 
crowdsourcing platforms such as Amazon Mechanical Turk, Crowdflower, 
DoMyStuff Livework, etc.

Important Dates

Submissions due:        December 3, 2010
Notification of acceptance    January 5, 2010
Camera-ready version due:    January 12, 2010
Workshop:             February 9, 2011

Short papers should be no longer than 4 pages, including all references 
and figures. Posters should be no longer than 2 pages. Papers should be 
formatted according to WSDM 2011 guidelines.  Papers will be submitted 
via EasyChair.

Most Innovative Awards - Sponsored by Microsoft Bing

Similar to the Crowdsourcing for Search Evaluation Workshop (CSE 2010) 
at SIGIR 2010, the most novel and innovative papers will be recognized 
with "Most Innovative Awards" sponsored by Microsoft Bing and judged by 
the workshop organizers. The number and financial amount of the awards 
will depend on the quality of the submissions and overall funding.

Invited Speakers

* Thore Graepel, Microsoft Research
* Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, New York University

Special issue of journal on crowdsourcing

The organizers are exploring the possibility of a special issue of a 
well-known journal focused on crowdsourcing. Details will be published 
on the website and to the Google group mailing list as they become 
available.

Organizers

Vitor Carvalho, Microsoft Bing
Matthew Lease, University of Texas at Austin
Emine Yilmaz, Microsoft Research

Program Committee

Omar Alonso, Microsoft Bing
Lukas Biewald, CrowdFlower
Adam Bradley, Amazon
Ben Carterette, University of Delaware
Charlie Clarke,University of Waterloo
Andy Edmonds, eBay
Deepak Ganesan, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, New York University
Gareth Jones, Dublin City University
Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam
Gabriella Kazai, Microsoft Research
Mounia Lalmas, University of Glasgow
Martha Larson, Delft University of Technology
Winter Mason, Yahoo! Research
Don Metzler, University of Southern California
Stefano Mizzaro, University of Udine
Gheorghe Muresan, Microsoft Bing
Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow
Mark Sanderson, RMIT University
Mark Smucker, University of Waterloo
Siddharth Suri, Yahoo! Research
Fang Xu, Saarland University

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Matt Lease
Assistant Professor
School of Information and Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at Austin
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