Session 1 ========= 8:00-8:30 Set up of posters around the room 8:30-8:35 Welcome 8:35-9:25 Talk: "Incentivizing High Quality Crowdwork" Speaker: Jennifer Wortman Vaughan. Microsoft Research, New York 9:30-10:00 Spotlight presentations for posters Christopher Lin: "To Re(label), or Not To Re(label)" Besmira Nushi: "CrowdSTAR: A Social Task Routing Framework for Online Communities" Minje Kim: "Collaborative Audio Enhancement: Crowdsourced Audio Recording" Paul Felt: "On Multinomial vs. Log-linear Crowdsourcing Models with Mean-field Variational Inference" Coffee Break ============ 10:00-10:30 Coffee and posters Session 2 ========= 10:30-11:15 Talk: "Bayesian Models for Powerful Crowdsourced Data Analysis" Speaker: Edwin Simpson. Oxford University 11:15-11:30 Spotlight presentations for posters Luigi Malago: "Online Active Learning with Strong and Weak Annotators" Yuyin Sun: "Active and Simple: Taxonomy Creation by Non-Expert Workers" Xin Wang: "A SVM-based Approach to Building Classifiers from Crowdsourcing Labels" 11:30-12:15 Talk: "World's Largest Online Workplace at Elance-oDesk" Speaker: Panagiotis Papadimitriou and Ioannis Antonellis. Elance-oDesk Lunch Break ============ 12:30-14:00 Group lunch Restaurant: Holder Address: 407 McGill Street #100A Montreal, QC H2Y 2G3 Reservation: Under name "NIPS-Crowd" Session 3 ========= 15:00-15:45 Talk: "Incentivizing Users for Balancing Bike Sharing Systems" Speaker: Andreas Krause. ETH Zurich 15:45-16:30 Talk: "Crowdsourcing the Facebook Entity Graph" Speaker: Damien Peters and Julian Eisenschlos. Facebook's Crowdsourcing Team Coffee Break ============ 16:30-17:00 Coffee and Posters Session 4 ========= 17:00-17:20 Paper presentation: "Elicitation for Aggregation" Speaker: Rafael Frongillo. Harvard University 17:20-18:10 Talk: "When Crowds Are Smarter Than Doctors" Speaker: Jared Heyman. CEO, CrowdMed 18:10-18:30 Discussion and Posters NIPS Dinner =========== 19:00-22:00 NIPS Farewell Dinner at Montreal Convention Center, Level 2