Relevance Prediction Challenge / WSDM 2012 Web Search Click Data Workshop

Website http://imat-relpred.yandex.ru/en | Edit Freely

Category data mining; machine learning; web search; click logs

Deadline: December 15, 2011 | Date: February 12, 2012

Venue/Country: Seattle, U.S.A

Updated: 2011-11-11 21:49:49 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Relevance Prediction Challenge, which is a part of the WSDM 2012 Web Search Click Data (WSCD) workshop. This challenge provides a unique opportunity to consolidate and scrutinize the work from industrial labs on predicting the relevance of URLs using user search behavior. It provides a fully anonymized dataset shared by Yandex, which has user queries, clicks on URLs and their relevance labels.

Important Dates:

Oct 15, 2011 - Challenge opens

Dec 15, 2011 - End of challenge

Dec 25, 2011 - Winners candidacy notification

Jan 20, 2012 - Reports deadline

Feb 12, 2012 - WSCD workshop at WSDM 2012 (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/nickcr/wscd2012/) and Winners announcement

The top three competitors will receive the following cash prizes:

1st place: $5,000

2nd place: $3,000

3rd place: $1,000

Contestants can participate as individuals, or as teams. You will find a detailed description of the task, data sets and result evaluation methodology at:

http://imat-relpred.yandex.ru/en

Challenge Organizers

Pavel Serdyukov, Eugene Kharitonov, Alexey Gorodilov (Yandex)

Georges Dupret (Yahoo!)

Nick Craswell (Microsoft)