CrowdSearch 2012 - The First International Workshop on Crowdsourcing Web search

CALL FOR PAPERS
CROWDSEARCH 2012
First International Workshop on Crowdsourcing Web Search
Lyon (France), April 17 2012 Co-located with WWW 2012
http://crowdsearch.como.polimi.it/
CALL FOR PAPERS
GOALS OF THE WORKSHOP
Link analysis, that has shaped Web search technology in the
last decade, can be seen as a massive mining of crowd-secured
reputation associated with pages. With the exponential increase
of social engagement, link analysis is now complemented by
other kinds of crowd-generated information, such as multimedia
content, recommendations, tweets and tags, and each person can
ask for information or advices from dedicated sites. With the
growth of online presence, we expect questions to be directly
routed to informed crowds. At the same time, many kinds of
tasks - either directly used for search or indirectly used for
enriching content to make it more searchable - are explicitly
crowd-sourced, possibly under the format of games. Many such
tasks can be used to craft information, e.g. by naming and
tagging data objects and by solving representational
ambiguities and conflicts, thereby enhancing the scope of
searchable objects. Thus, social engagement is empowering and
reshaping the search of Web information.
CrowdSearch is targeted to enabling, promoting and
understanding individual and social participation to search. It
addresses important research questions, such as: How can search
paradigms make use of social participation? Will keyword-based
search seamlessly adapt to social search, or instead will new
models of interaction emerge? Should social interaction be
stimulated by curiosity, games, friendship or other incentives?
Is there a "crowdsearching etiquette" to be used when engaging
friend or expert communities? Should new sources of information
be socially scouted? Which are the mechanisms that may be used
to improve or reshape search results based upon social ranking?
How do social ranking models compare to advertising? Will
social interaction solve the problems of data integration? What
is the role of semantics, and can it help CrowdSearch?
The workshop aims at gathering researchers from different
fields to debate about the various concepts, approaches,
architectural choices and technical solutions for opening
information search to the active participation of human beings.
The key idea is that human beings should be actively involved
in different stages of the search and their actions should be
composed and intermixed with those of computers to get the best
possible search results.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
* Sihem Amer Yahia, QCRI: Crowd-Sourcing Literature Review in SUNFLOWER
* Donald Kossmann, ETH Zurich: Using the Crowd to Solve Database Problems
Topics of interest
The topics of interest for this workshop include (but are not
limited to):
Large-scale knowledge discovery, content enrichment and quality
assessment with the support of humans and communities.
Models for task crowdsourcing and game creation for information
augmentation, integration, extraction, classification, and
retrieval.
Software models, architectures, and tools for combining
information management with human and social computations.
Throughput, processing time, and results quality optimization
of queries that involve both data and human sources.
Incentive mechanisms for engaging users in tasks and games,
either individually or cooperatively within social networks.
Techniques for identifying and mitigating spam and abuse in
crowd search tasks.
Approaches for measuring the effectiveness and quality of human
and social applications for information retrieval and their
empirical assessment.
Human and social computation in multimedia content processing
for search.
Use cases and applications of human-assisted information
retrieval.
Role of crowd search in "big data" applications.
User models and human factors in task design for crowdsourced
search applications, e.g., cognitive bias, bounded rationality,
understanding the boundaries between search questions and spam,
etc.
Registration will be open to all WWW 2012 attendees.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
The workshop will accept:
* Regular research papers (maximum length: 6 pages)
* Industrial / Experience papers (maximum length: 4 pages)
* Position / Vision papers (maximum length: 4 pages)
Papers should be submitted as PDF files, in double-column ACM SIG proceedings format
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-t... [www.acm.org];
for LaTeX, use "Option 2").
Papers should be submitted electronically using the EasyChair
system at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=crowds...
no later than 23:59 Pacific Standard Time, February 8, 2012.
IMPORTANT DATES
* Abstract submission deadline: February 1st 2012 (strongly recommended)
* Papers submission deadline: February 8, 2012
* Notification of papers acceptance: March 5, 2012
* Papers camera-ready version: March 12, 2012
* Workshop date: April 17, 2012
WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS
The proceedings of the workshop will be published as CEUR
Workshop Proceeding.
ORGANIZERS
Ricardo Baeza Yates, Yahoo! Research (rbaeza-AT-acm.org)
Stefano Ceri, Piero Fraternali, Politecnico di Milano (stefano.ceri/piero.fraternali-AT-polimi.it)
Fausto Giunchiglia, Universita di Trento (fausto-AT-disi.unitn.it)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* Omar Alonso, Bing
* Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano
* Alessandro Bozzon, Politecnico di Milano
* Fabio Casati, University of Trento
* Petros Daras, ITI CERTH
* Michael J. Franklin, University of California, Berkeley
* Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College
* Masataka Goto, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
* Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary University of London
* Anthony Jameson, DFKI
* Alejandro Jaimes, Yahoo! Research Barcelona
* Martha Larson, TU Delft
* Matt Lease, University of Texas
* Stefano Mazzocchi, Google
* Stefano Mizzaro, Universita di Udine
* Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S
* Neoklis Polyzotis, University of California Santa Cruz
* Alexander J Quinn, University of Maryland College Park
* Dave Robertson, University of Edinburgh
* Yannis Velegrakis, University of Trento
Workshop Contact: piero.fraternali-AT-polimi.it