A $10K bounty for the KDD Cup 2016
The KDD Cup 2016 challenge is underway, and the results from Phase 1 are in! This year’s task is to evaluate the most influential organizations in a given domain, such as machine learning, information retrieval, or computer vision. Team submissions are being evaluated on their predictive ability to rank institutions based on the number of accepted papers to top conferences in these domains, and the final winners will be the aggregated scores over three separate evaluations.
Prior to the Phase 1 deadline, we had over 400 teams registered. The Phase 1 results are now available (https://kddcup2016.azurewebsites.net/Phase1Results) and are based on the final set of accepted papers for the SIGIR 2016 conference. An interesting note is that an entry using the top author affiliations from the past two years of accepted SIGIR papers would have resulted in a sixth place showing in Phase 1.
The overall KDD Cup winners will be announced after Phase 3 is completed. Don’t miss out! Even if you have not submitted an entry for Phase 1, you can still participate. The next deadline is April 28, 2016. Register your team and submit an entry today.
