# Papers

More detailed information is available in our papers:

*  [CHI ‘17](https://web.archive.org/web/20180831211003/http://barowy.net/papers/voxpl-chi.pdf): **VoxPL: Programming with the Wisdom of the Crowd**\
   Daniel W. Barowy, Emery D. Berger, Daniel G. Goldstein, and Siddharth Suri
  * [talk slides](https://web.archive.org/web/20180831211003/https://s3.amazonaws.com/dbarowy-cics-assets/VoxPL-CHI-2017.key)
*  [CACM RH ‘16](https://web.archive.org/web/20180831211003/http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2927928): **AutoMan: A Platform for Integrating Human-Based and Digital Computation (Research Highlight)**\
   Daniel W. Barowy, Charlie Curtsinger, Emery D. Berger, and Andrew McGregor
*  [OOPSLA ‘12](https://web.archive.org/web/20180831211003/http://www.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/res0007-barowy.pdf): **AutoMan: A Platform for Integrating Human-Based and Digital Computation**\
   Daniel W. Barowy, Charlie Curtsinger, Emery D. Berger, and Andrew McGregor
  * [talk slides](https://web.archive.org/web/20180831211003/https://s3.amazonaws.com/dbarowy-cics-assets/automan_oopsla_2012.ppt)
* [Tech report UMass CS TR 2011-44](https://web.archive.org/web/20180831211003/http://www.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/AutoMan-UMass-CS-TR2011-44.pdf)
* Second Workshop on Computational Social Science and the Wisdom of Crowds, ‘11
  * [NIPS poster](https://web.archive.org/web/20180831211003/https://s3.amazonaws.com/dbarowy-cics-assets/automan_nips_poster.jpg)
  * [NIPS workshop paper](https://web.archive.org/web/20180831211003/http://web.archive.org/web/20160808010421id_/https://people.cs.umass.edu/~wallach/workshops/nips2011css/papers/Barowy.pdf)

There are two versions of the original AutoMan paper, a shortened Research Highlight that appeared in the June 2016 issue of the Communications of the ACM and a longer version that appeared at OOPSLA 2012. You should probably start with the CACM version which has a bit more polish and some updated results.

The VoxPL paper describes our approach to automate the original wisdom of the crowd task, estimation. We introduce a novel quality control algorithm and describe how we rebuilt AutoMan’s architecture to handle these new kinds of tasks.

Full citations are given below:

*VoxPL*

```javascript
@inproceedings{Barowy:2017:VPW:3025453.3026025,
 author = {Barowy, Daniel W. and Berger, Emery D. and Goldstein, Daniel G. and Suri, Siddharth},
 title = {VoxPL: Programming with the Wisdom of the Crowd},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
 series = {CHI '17},
 year = {2017},
 isbn = {978-1-4503-4655-9},
 location = {Denver, Colorado, USA},
 pages = {2347--2358},
 numpages = {12},
 url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3025453.3026025},
 doi = {10.1145/3025453.3026025},
 acmid = {3026025},
 publisher = {ACM},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
 keywords = {crowdprogramming, crowdsourcing, domain-specific languages, quality control, scalability, wisdom of the crowd},
}
```

*AutoMan (Communications of the ACM Research Highlight)*

```javascript
@article{Barowy:2016:API:2942427.2927928,
 author = {Barowy, Daniel W. and Curtsinger, Charlie and Berger, Emery D. and McGregor, Andrew},
 title = {AutoMan: A Platform for Integrating Human-based and Digital Computation},
 journal = {Commun. ACM},
 issue_date = {June 2016},
 volume = {59},
 number = {6},
 month = may,
 year = {2016},
 issn = {0001-0782},
 pages = {102--109},
 numpages = {8},
 url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2927928},
 doi = {10.1145/2927928},
 acmid = {2927928},
 publisher = {ACM},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
}
```

*AutoMan (original)*

```javascript
@inproceedings{Barowy:2012:API:2384616.2384663,
 author = {Barowy, Daniel W. and Curtsinger, Charlie and Berger, Emery D. and McGregor, Andrew},
 title =  {{AutoMan} : a platform for integrating human-based and digital computation},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications},
 series = {OOPSLA '12},
 year = {2012},
 isbn = {978-1-4503-1561-6},
 location = {Tucson, Arizona, USA},
 pages = {639--654},
 numpages = {16},
 url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2384616.2384663},
 doi = {10.1145/2384616.2384663},
 acmid = {2384663},
 publisher = {ACM},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
 keywords = {crowdsourcing, programming languages, quality control},
}
```

Contact information:

Dan Barowy, <dbarowy@cs.williams.edu> Emery Berger, <emery@cs.umass.edu>


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