Fwd: HCOMP 2011 Call for Papers
Chris Callison-Burch
Begin forwarded message:
> From: "Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis" <pa...@stern.nyu.edu>
> Date: January 20, 2011 10:56:30 AM EST
> To: Panagiotis Ipeirotis <pa...@stern.nyu.edu>
> Subject: HCOMP 2011 Call for Papers
>
> We are writing to invite you to join us for the next Human Computation
> Workshop (HCOMP 2011), co-located with AAAI 2011 in San Francisco
> (August 7 or 8).
>
> Human Computation is the study of systems where humans perform a major
> part of the computation or are an integral part of the overall
> computational system. Over the past few years, we have observed a
> proliferation of related workshops, new courses, and tutorials,
> scattered across many conferences.
>
> In this 3rd Human Computation Workshop (HCOMP 2011), we hope to draw
> together participants across disciplines -- machine learning, HCI,
> mechanism and market design, information retrieval, decision-theoretic
> planning, optimization, computer vision -- for a stimulating full-day
> workshop at AAAI in the beautiful San Francisco this summer. There
> will be presentation of new works, lively discussions, poster and demo
> sessions, and invited talks by Eric Horvitz, Jennifer Wortman and
> more. There will also be a 4-hour tutorial called "Human Computation:
> Core Research Questions and State of the Art" at AAAI on August 7
> (TBD) which will give newcomers and current researchers a bird’s eye
> view of the research landscape of human computation.
>
> Below is the Call for Papers. You can also find more detailed
> information about the workshop at our website:
> http://www.humancomputation.com .
>
> We hope to see you there!
>
> - the HCOMP 2011 Organizers (Luis von Ahn, Panagiotis Ipeirotis, Edith
> Law, Haoqi Zhang and Jing Wang)
>
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>
> 3rd Human Computation Workshop (HCOMP 2011)
> co-located with AAAI 2011
> August 7 or 8, San Francisco, CA
> http://www.humancomputation.com
>
> Call For Papers
>
> Human computation is a relatively new research area that studies how
> to build intelligent systems that involves human computers, with each
> of them performing computation (e.g., image classification,
> translation, and protein folding) that leverage human intelligence,
> but challenges even the most sophisticated AI algorithms that exist
> today. With the immense growth of the Web, human computation systems
> can now leverage the abilities of an unprecedented number of Internet
> users to perform complex computation. Various genres of human
> computation applications are available today, including games with a
> purpose (e.g., the ESP Game) that generates useful data through
> gameplay, crowdsourcing marketplaces (e.g., Amazon Mechanical Turk)
> that coordinate workers to perform tasks for monetary rewards, and
> identity verification systems (e.g. reCAPTCHA) that generate useful
> data through users performing computation for access to online
> content.
>
> Despite the variety of human computation applications, there exist
> many common core research issues. How can we design mechanisms for
> querying human computers in such a way that incentivizes or encourages
> truthful responses? What are the techniques for aggregating noisy
> outputs from multiple human computers? How do we effectively assign
> tasks to human computers to match their particular expertise and
> interests? What are some programming paradigms for designing
> algorithms that effectively leverage the humans in the loop? How do we
> build human computation systems that involve the joint efforts of both
> machines and humans, trading off each of their particular strengths
> and weaknesses? Significant advances on such questions will likely
> need to draw many disciplines, including machine learning, mechanism
> and market design, information retrieval, decision-theoretic planning,
> optimization, human computer interaction, etc.
>
> The workshop recognizes the growing opportunity for AI to function as
> an enabling technology in human computation systems. At the same time,
> AI can leverage technical advances and data collected from human
> computation systems for its own advancement. The goal of HCOMP 2011
> is to bring together academic and industry researchers from diverse
> subfields in a stimulating discussion of existing human computation
> applications and future directions of this relatively new subject
> area. The workshop also aims to broaden the scope of human computation
> to more than the issue of data collection to a broader definition of
> human computation, to study systems where humans perform a major part
> of the computation or are an integral part of the overall
> computational system.
>
> Topics
>
> Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
>
> •Programming languages, tools and platforms to support human computation
> •Domain-specific challenges in human computation
> •Methods for estimating the cost, reliability, and skill of labelers
> •Methods for designing and controlling workflows for human computation tasks
> •Empirical and formal models of incentives in human computation systems
> •Benefits of one-time versus repeated labeling
> •Design of manipulation-resistance mechanisms in human computation
> •Concerns regarding the protection of labeler identities
> •Active learning from imperfect human labelers
> •Techniques for inferring expertise and routing tasks
> •Theoretical limitations of human computation
>
> Format
>
> The workshop will consist of several invited talks from prominent
> researchers in different areas related to human computation, selected
> presentations of technical and position papers, as well as poster and
> demo sessions, organized by theme.
>
> Submission
>
> Technical papers and position papers may be up to 6 pages in length,
> and should follow AAAI formatting guidelines. For demos and poster
> presentations, authors should submit a short paper or extended
> abstract (up to 2 pages). We welcome early work, and particularly
> encourage submission of visionary position papers that are more
> forward looking. Papers must be submitted electronically via CMT –
> please visit the supplemental workshop site for further instructions.
> The submission deadline is April 22, 2010.
>
> Workshop Website
>
> For more details, please consult our workshop website at
> http://www.humancomputation.com/.
>
> Organizers
>
> Luis von Ahn
> Carnegie Mellon University
> big...@cs.cmu.edu
>
> Panagiotis Ipeirotis
> New York University
> pa...@stern.nyu.edu
>
> Edith Law
> Carnegie Mellon University
> ed...@cmu.edu
>
> Haoqi Zhang
> Harvard University
> h...@eecs.harvard.edu
>
> Jing Wang
> New York University
> jwa...@stern.nyu.edu
>
> Program Committee
>
> Foster Provost
> Winter Mason
> Eric Horvitz
> Ed Chi
> Serge Belongie
> Paul Bennett
> Jennifer Wortman
> Yiling Chen
> Kristen Grauman
> Raman Chandrasekar
> Rob Miller
> Deepak Ganesan
> Chris Callison-Burch
> Vitor R. Carvalho
> David Parkes