ECML/PKDD Discovery Challenge 2010: Web Content quality

The goal is to develop automatic site-level classifiers including aspects such as trustworthiness, authoritativeness, neutrality, and genre (editorial, news, commercial, educational, Web spam and more).

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.

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For more information, please visit ECML/PKDD Discovery Challenge homepage

The organizers,

Andras Benczur - Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Carlos Castillo - Yahoo!
Zoltan Gyongyi - Google
Julien Masanes - European Archive