LINGUIST List 21.3288 Sat Aug 14 2010 Calls: Comp Ling, Socioling/USA Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Matt Lease, CrowdConf Message 1: CrowdConf Date: 14-Aug-2010 From: Matt Lease <mlischool.utexas.edu> Subject: CrowdConf E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: CrowdConf Date: 04-Oct-2010 - 04-Oct-2010 Location: San Francisco, USA Contact Person: Aaron Shaw Meeting Email: paperscrowdflower.com Web Site: http://crowdconf.com Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Sociolinguistics Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2010 Meeting Description: CrowdConf will bring together researchers, technologists, outsourcing entrepreneurs, legal scholars, and artists for the first time to discuss how crowdsourcing is transforming human computation and the future of work. The conference includes a series of peer-reviewed presentation tracks, posters, technology demonstrations as well as invited keynote addresses from leaders in crowdsourcing. Call For Papers Call for Papers, Demos, and Posters http://crowdconf.com/papers.html We solicit submissions of papers, presentations, posters, and demonstrations. All submissions are welcome and will be peer reviewed by members of the program committee. Submissions of broad interest will be invited for presentation as talks. Submissions are invited on all topics regarding crowdsourcing, including: -Past, present, and future of crowdsourcing -Quality assurance and metrics -Social and economic implications of crowdsourcing -Task design/Worker incentives -Innovative projects, experiments, and applications Important Dates -Submissions due Sept. 1 -Acceptance Decision: Sept. 15 Reviewing will be double-blind. Submissions must be anonymized and sent in PDF format. Papers should be formatted according to modified ACM guidelines used for WWW 2010: http://www2010.org/www/authors/submissions/formatting-guidelines. Papers must describe original, unpublished research, be 10 pages of less, and include an abstract of less than 250 words. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, some papers will be selected for for 'full' or 'spotlight' presentations. Posters, presentations, or demonstrations must be an abstract of less than 500 words. May be previously published or presented. Are eligible only for 'full' or 'spotlight' presentations. Email submissions to paperscrowdconf.com, including author name(s), affiliation(s), and contact information in your email. Program Committee Chairs Alex Sorokin, Crowdflower Aaron Shaw, Harvard University Program Committee Judd Antin, Yahoo! Research Jonathan Chang. Facebook Alek Felstiner, University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law David Forsyth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign John Horton, Harvard University Niki Kittur, Carnegie Mellon Aaron Koblin. Google Matthew Lease, University of Texas at Austin Greg Little, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cameron Marlow, Facebook Winter Mason, Yahoo! Research Devi Parikh, Toyota Technical Institute Barney Pell, Microsof David Pennock, Yahoo! Research Clay Shirky, New York University Siddharth Suri, Yahoo! Research Rion Snow, Twitter Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 14-Aug-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.