CROWDSEARCH 2012 - The First International Workshop on Crowdsourcing Web search

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Deadline: February 08, 2012 | Date: April 16, 2012-April 20, 2012

Venue/Country: Lyon, France

Updated: 2012-01-14 17:38:03 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

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-templates [www.acm.org];

for LaTeX, use "Option 2").

Papers should be submitted electronically using the EasyChair

system at

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=crowdsearch2012

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 (rbaezaacm.org)

Stefano Ceri, Piero Fraternali, Politecnico di Milano (stefano.ceri/piero.fraternalipolimi.it)

Fausto Giunchiglia, Universita di Trento (faustodisi.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.fraternalipolimi.it