Yandex – Relevance Prediction Challenge
Important Dates:
Oct 15, 2011 – Challenge opens
Dec 15 22, 2011 – End of challenge
Dec 25, 2011 – Winners candidacy notification
Jan 20, 2012 – Reports deadline
Feb 12, 2012 – WSCD workshop at WSDM 2012, Winners announcement
Sorry, you are late starting already, here are some of the details, see the website for more:
From the webpage:
The Relevance Prediction 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 clicks and relevance judgements. Predicting relevance based on clicks is difficult, and is not a solved problem. This Challenge and the shared dataset will enable a whole new set of researchers to conduct such experiments.
The Relevance Prediction Challenge is a part of series of contests organized by Yandex called Internet Mathematics. This year’s event is the sixth since 2004. Participants will again compete in finding solutions to a real-life problem based on real-life data. In previous years, participants tried to learn to rank documents, predict traffic jams and find similar images.
I can’t think of very many “better” days to find out you won such a contest!