Call for PARTICIPATION - Semantic Search Challenge 2011

Call for PARTICIPATION
Semantic Search Challenge 2011 (sponsored by Yahoo!)
http://km.aifb.kit.edu/ws/semsearch11#challenge
http://semsearch.yahoo.com (will go online within the next days).
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Fellow Researcher,

Building on the success of previous year's Semantic Search evaluation, 
we call for participation in the Semantic Search Challenge 2011, a 
competition that requires participants to answer queries of varying 
complexity based on a set of structured data collected from the Web.This

year's competition will consists of two tracks. Please refer to the call

below for more details. The first "Entity Search Track" consists of 
queries that refer to one particular entity. The second "List Search 
Track" consists of complex queries with multiple possible answers. The 
winners of each track will receive a prize of $500 dollars (sponsored by

Yahoo!). Please refer to the website for details.

The results of the evaluation will be presented at the 4th International

Semantic Search Workshop (SemSearch 2011), co-located with the World 
Wide Web Conference (WWW 2011) in Hyderabad, India. However, you don't 
need to attend the workshop to participate in the Challenge.

For further news and discussions related to SemSearch 2011 and the 
Semantic Search Challenge, please register at 
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/semsearcheval/

We are looking forward to having you participate!

Cheers,

the Organizing CommitteeRoi Blanco (Yahoo! Research)
Harry Halpin (University of Edinburgh)
Daniel M. Herzig (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Peter Mika (Yahoo! Research)
Henry S. Thompson (University of Edinburgh)
Thanh Tran Duc (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

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Important Dates
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Contest entry period starts: 12:00:00 AM PT on March 1, 2011

Contest entry period ends:   11:59:59 PM PT on March 15, 2011

WWW 2011 Conference: March 28 - April 1, 2011

SemSearch 2011 Workshop Day: March 29, 2011
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Contact
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For news and discussions related to SemSearch and Evaluation at
SemSearch, please register at
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/semsearcheval/.

See the website http://semsearch.yahoo.com for further details (will go
online beginning next week, 21st February).

Received on Friday, 18 February 2011 12:52:12 UTC