Yeah, these are all cool. Competitions are a lot of work and cost
money, but I think it is a good goal that we should support those
interested in participating (which are often academics.) By getting
adoption of Mahout in the schools, it will no doubt lead to more
contributions, etc.
On May 15, 2008, at 7:38 PM, Isabel Drost wrote:
Hello,
I just came across the following machine learning competitions. The
first one
and the third one seem particularly interesting for us. Anyone have
any spare
time to have a look at the tasks? Anyone who is interested in
looking into
submitting a solution and getting the fame of being the winner ;)
Pascal Large Scale Learning Challenge
http://largescale.first.fraunhofer.de/about/
KDD Cup 2008
Early detection of breast cancer from X-ray images.
http://www.sigkdd.org/kdd2008/kddcup.html
ECML/PKDD Discovery Challenge
Tag Recommendation and spam detection in social bookmarking systems
http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/rsdc08/
ICDM Challenge
TBA
http://icdm08.isti.cnr.it/CallsFor/15/icdm-2008-data-mining-contest-call-for-proposals
In case you are aware of more challenges, feel free to extend the
list.
Cheers,
Isabel
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