WSDM Cup 2017: Adobe Sponsors Awards for Vandalism Detection and Triple Scoring in Knowledge Bases

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WSDM Cup 2017: Call for Participation
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We invite you to take part in the following shared tasks:


Task 1.
Vandalism Detection -- Given a Wikidata revision, is it damaging?
This task is about detecting vandalism as well as all other kinds of
damaging
edits to Wikidata. In doing so, not only Wikidata's integrity is protected,
but
also that of all information systems making use of the knowledge base.


Task 2.
Triple Scoring -- Compute relevance scores for triples from type-like
relations.
For example, the triple "Johnny_Depp profession Actor" should get a high
score,
because acting is Depp's main profession, whereas "Quentin_Tarantino
profession
Actor" should get a low score, because Tarantino is more of a director than
an
actor. Such scores are a basic ingredient for ranking results in entity
search.


Learn more at http://www.wsdm-cup-2017.org
Register now at https://goo.gl/forms/JaVQwFFewLtVFCik2


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Important Dates
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now open         Registration
Sep    1, 2016   Training data release
Oct   15, 2016   Early bird software submission
Dec    8, 2016   Final software submission
Dec   22, 2016   Announcement of evaluation results
Jan    5, 2017   Paper submission
Feb 6-10, 2017   Conference and WSDM Cup workshop

All deadlines are 11:59 PM, anywhere on earth (AoE).


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Special Announcements
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Awards for best-performing submissions.

Aobe Systems, Inc. sponsors the WSDM Cup with a total of $5000 in awards for
the best-performing submissions. The winners of each task will receive an
award of $1500, and the second and third runner-ups $750 and $250.


Evaluation as a Service.

For the sake of reproducability, we ask you to submit your software instead
of
just its run output. Software submissions allow for preserving your software
in working condition, and for re-evaluating it as new datasets appear.
To facilitate software submissions, we will make use of the cloud-based
evaluation platform TIRA (www.tira.io).

Open Source Proceedings.

We encourage the open source release of your software. To maximize the
impact
of your software, we collect it at a central repository on GitHub:
https://github.com/wsdm-cup-2017
Private repositories can be assigned to you at request during the
competition.

Benefits for early birds.

Submitting your software or your notebook early, as well as registering
early
for the conference will be rewarded. Check out the specific benefits on
our web page at http://www.wsdm-cup-2017.org