CrowdSearch 2012
Crowdsourcing Web Search

Table of Contents

• Preface
  
  

Session 1: Invited talks

1. Using the Crowd to Solve Database Problems (invited paper) 1
   Donald Kossman
2. Crowd Sourcing Literature Review in SUNFLOWER (invited paper) 2
   Sihem Amer-Yahia

Session 2: Crowdsearching on textual and linked data

3. Social-Textual Search and Ranking 3-8
   Ali Khodaei, Cyrus Shahabi
4. A Semantically Enabled Architecture for Crowdsourced Linked Data Management 9-14
   Elena Simperl, Maribel Acosta, Barry Norton
5. Exploiting Twitter as a Social Channel for Human Computation 15-19
   Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Ricardo Kawase

Session 3: Methods and Tools for CrowdSearching

6. Human Computation Must Be Reproducible 20-25
   Praveen Paritosh
7. Mechanical Cheat: Spamming Schemes and Adversarial Techniques on Crowdsourcing Platforms 26-30
   Djellel Eddine Difallah, Gianluca Demartini, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux
8. A Model-Driven Approach for Crowdsourcing Search 31-35
   Alessandro Bozzon, Marco Brambilla, Andrea Mauri

Session 4: Crowdsourcing for Multimedia Applications

9. PodCastle and Songle: Crowdsourcing-Based Web Services for Retrieval and Browsing of Speech and Music Content 36-41
   Masataka Goto, Jun Ogata, Kazuyoshi Yoshii, Hiromasa Fujihara, Matthias Mauch, Tomoyasu Nakano
10. A Framework for Crowdsourced Multimedia Processing and Querying 42-47
    Alessandro Bozzon, Ilio Catallo, Eleonora Ciceri, Piero Fraternali, Davide Martinenghi, Marco Tagliasacchi
11. An Evaluation of Search Strategies for User-Generated Video Content 48-53
    Christopher G. Harris
12. Discovering User Perceptions of Semantic Similarity in Near-duplicate Multimedia Files 54-58
    Raynor Vliegendhart, Martha Larson, Johan Pouwelse