[apologies if you receive multiple copies] The focus of the ECML/PKDD Discovery Challenge 2010 is Web Content Quality. The goal is to develop automatic site-level classifiers including aspects such as trustworthiness, authoritativeness, neutrality, etc. as well as genre classification (editorial, news, commercial, educational, Web spam and more).
We invite researchers on Machine Learning, Data Mining, Information Retrieval, etc. to participate in this challenging task. This year's competition will have cash prizes sponsored by Google and travel grants sponsored by Yahoo! Prizes: 1st place (measured as average over all three tasks): USD 2500 2nd place: USD 1000 1st place for the English quality task: USD 1500 In the case that a participant wins 2 prizes they will get only the higher one and leave the other for the next participant in the ranked list Travel grants: USD 2500 in travel grants for up to 5 students. Training data will be available in early April, and participants are expected to submit their results by the beginning of June. If you are interested in receiving updates about this challenge, please subscribe to our newsletter: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/discovery-challenge-2010-announces/join For more information, please visit: http://www.ecmlpkdd2010.org/articles-mostra-2041-eng-discovery_challenge_2010.htm The organizers, Andras Benczur - Hungarian Academy of Sciences Carlos Castillo - Yahoo! Zoltan Gyongyi - Google Julien Masanes - European Archive _______________________________________________ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
