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From: Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro
Date: 28 Sep 2005
Subject: KDD Cup 2005 Winners

The task was to categorize 800,000 queries into 67 predefined categories.

The winners of KDD Cup were

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology team of
Dou Shen, Rong Pan, Jiantao Sun, Junfeng Pan, Kangheng Wu, Jie Yin and Qiang Yang

who won in all 3 categories of

  • Query Categorization Precision Award
  • Query Categorization Performance Award
  • Query Categorization Creativity Award
This is the first time that the same team won in all categories.

The Runner-ups were

  • Query Categorization Precision Award:
    Budapest University of Technology team
    Zsolt T. Kardkov�cs, Domonkos Tikk, Zolt�n B�ns�ghi
  • Query Categorization Performance Award
    MEDai/AI Insight/ Humboldt University team
    David S. Vogel, Steve Bridges, Steffen Bickel, Peter Haider, Rolf Schimpfky, Peter Siemen, Tobias Scheffer
  • Query Categorization Creativity Award
    Budapest University of Technology team
    Zsolt T. Kardkov�cs, Domonkos Tikk, Zolt�n B�ns�ghi

See additional information about KDD Cup 2005 at

http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/kdd2005/kddcup.html


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