[CUNY2011] Final Call for Abstracts: Workshop on Crowdsourcing Technologies for Language and Cognition Studies

[Harry J Tily]

Please note the due date for abstract submission: March 1st, 2011

Crowdsourcing Technologies for Language and Cognition Studies
Workshop in conjunction with the 2011 Linguistic Society of America
Summer Institute
Wednesday July 27th, 2011, University of Boulder, Colorado.

This workshop will bring together linguists who are utilizing
crowdsourcing technologies and those who want to know more about them.
It combines a half-day “how-to” session where participants will learn to
conduct experiments using crowdsourcing platforms and a half-day
workshop where researchers come together to share results, ideas, and
strategies.



Workshop description


Linguists increasingly recognize the importance of backing up their
intuitions and theories with empirical data in the form of native
speaker judgments, acceptability ratings, and behavioral measures. While
appropriate lab-based experiments entail significant cost, time and
expertise, crowdsourcing technologies allow experiments or surveys to be
designed and run over the internet quickly and cheaply. More than a
million workers currently log in to services like Amazon’s Mechanical
Turk to complete short tasks for pay-per-task compensation. These
platforms were developed to allow companies to outsource work, but are
now being used in research: first for simple annotation and translation
(Callison-Burch, 2009; Hseh et al., 2009; Marge et al. 2010; Snow et
al., 2008); but increasingly for more sophisticated research in varied
experimental paradigms (Gibson & Fedorenko, submitted; Munro et al,
2010; Schnoebelen & Kuperman, submitted).




Call for Abstracts

We are eliciting abstract submissions for afternoon presentations. They
should present either:
a) novel empirical results in linguistics or the language sciences that
have been enabled by internet-based crowdsourcing technologies, or b)
novel approaches to data collection and evaluation, especially when
there are no ‘correct’ responses to a given stimulus.
Crowdsourcing technologies could include technologies like Amazon’s
Mechanical Turk, CrowdFlower, online games, collaborative platforms like
instant messaging and Wikipedia, or custom software built for collecting
language and cognition data. Talk slots will be 10-15 minutes, depending
on scheduling.



Submission

Please send 250-word abstracts to crowdscientist at gmail.com by March 1st,
2011 (midnight PST).
Do not include author names or affiliations in the abstracts as
reviewing will be blind.
Abstracts can be in plain text or PDF. You may optionally include
figures, tables and/or references. They will not count towards the 250
words, but please limit the entire submission to one page.



Workshop Organizers

Robert Munro (Stanford Linguistics)
Harry Tily (MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences) 

Review Committee

Chris Callison-Burch (Johns Hopkins Computer Science & Center for
Language and Speech Processing)
Mike Frank (Stanford Psychology & Language and Cognition Lab)
Florian Jaeger (University of Rochester Human Language Processing Lab)
Victor Kuperman (McMaster University Department of Linguistics &
Languages)
Robert Munro (Stanford Linguistics)
Steven Piantadosi (MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences)
Chris Potts (Stanford Linguistics)
Philip Resnik (University of Maryland Department of Linguistics &
Institute for Advanced Computer Studies)
Neal Snider (Nuance Communications)
Harry Tily (MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences)



Organizing committee

David Clausen (Stanford Linguistics)



Keynote speaker

Lukas Biewald (CEO, CrowdFlower)



Sponsorship

The workshop is sponsored by CrowdFlower.
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