Web: http://tunedit.org/challenge/JRS12Contest

The data mining competition "Topical Classification of Biomedical
Research Papers", a special event of Joint Rough Sets Symposium (JRS
2012), has started now. The task is to design most accurate algorithm
for multi-label classification of scientific publications in
biomedicine. There are 20,000 samples available for analysis, each
comprising 25,640 attributes. Money prizes worth $1,500 will be
awarded to the most successful teams. The contest is organized by a
research team from University of Warsaw, Poland, and sponsored by
Southwest Jiaotong University, China.

Apart from money prizes for the top teams, authors of selected
solutions will be invited to prepare papers for presentation at JRS
2012 special session devoted to the competition and for inclusion in
conference proceedings.

This challenge may be appealing to all data mining practitioners due
to its strong relations with well-founded subjects: generalized
decision rules induction, feature extraction, soft and rough
computing, semantic text mining, scalable classification methods.

Important dates:

- Jan 2, 2012: start of the challenge, data sets become available
- Mar 30, 2012: deadline for submitting predictions
- Apr 2, 2012: deadline for submitting reports
- Apr 6, 2012: publication of final results
- May 10, 2012: deadline for submitting camera-ready papers for JRS

Competition web page: http://tunedit.org/challenge/JRS12Contest

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