The December 2002 issue of SIGKDD Explorations will contain several articles desribing the KDD Cup tasks and the solutions developed by the top-finishing teams.

 Task 1: Information Extraction from Biomedical Articles

First Place: ClearForest and Celera 

• Yizhar Regev and Michal Finkelstein

Honorable Mentions:

• Design Technology Institute Ltd., Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore and Genome Institute of Singapore (Shi Min)
• Data Mining Group, Imperial College and Inforsense Limited (Huma Lodhi and Yong Zhang)
• Verity Inc. and Exelixis, Inc. (Bin Chen)

 

Task 2: Yeast Gene Regulation Prediction

First Place: Adam Kowalczyk and Bhavani Raskutti 

• Telstra Research Laboratories [slides]

Honorable Mentions:

• David Vogel and Randy Axelrod
  ;A.I. Insight Inc. and Sentara Healthcare
• Marcus Denecke, Mark-A. Krogel, Marco Landwehr and Tobias Scheffer
  Magdeburg University
• George Forman
  Hewlett Packard Laboratories
• Amal Perera, Bill Jockheck, Willy Valdivia Granda, Anne Denton, Pratap Kotala and William Perrizo
  North Dakota State University