The document discusses various ways that crowdsourcing has been used to summarize documents, including: 1) Having a "crowd inside" a word processor to provide automatic ethics checking of documents. 2) Using crowds to provide translations of documents for monolingual speakers. 3) Engaging online gamers in solving scientific puzzles like protein folding, which helped advance AIDS research.

1. Shrinkwrapped Crowds
Matt Lease – University of Texas at Austin – @mattlease

2. Coordinating & Controlling Crowds
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3. Challenge: Automatic Ethics Checking
President’s address at ACL 2003
– Transcript in Conduit 12(2) 2003
Think how useful it could be to have a little
“ethics checker and corrector” program
integrated into a word processor!
Matt Lease - ml@ischool.utexas.edu 3/11

4. Soylent: A Word Processor with a Crowd Inside
• Bernstein et al., UIST 2010
Matt Lease - ml@ischool.utexas.edu 4/11

5. PlateMate (Noronha et al., UIST’10)
Matt Lease - ml@ischool.utexas.edu 5/11

6. VizWiz aaaaaaaa
Bingham et al. (UIST 2010)
Matt Lease - ml@ischool.utexas.edu 6/11

7. Translation by monolingual speakers
• C. Hu, CHI 2009
Matt Lease - ml@ischool.utexas.edu 7/11

8. • Yan et al., MobiSys’10
• CrowdTerrier
(McCreadie et al., SIGIR’12)
• Amazon Remembers
Matt Lease - ml@ischool.utexas.edu 8/11

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10. fold.it
S. Cooper et al. (2010)
Alice G. Walton. Online Gamers Help Solve Mystery of
Critical AIDS Virus Enzyme. The Atlantic, October 8, 2011.
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11. Thank You!
ir.ischool.utexas.edu/crowd
What could you do with a shrinkwrapped crowd?