Fwd: [SIG-IRList] KDD-Cup 2011 - Call for Participation
Uldis Bojars
From: Noam Koenigstein <no...@eng.tau.ac.il>
Date: Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:28 AM
Subject: [SIG-IRList] KDD-Cup 2011 - Call for Participation
To:
INVITATION:
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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate
groups the following Call for Participation:
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Call for Participation
KDD-Cup 2011
Recommending Music Items based on the Yahoo! Music Dataset
Website: http://kddcup.yahoo.com/
Learn the rhythm, predict the musical scores
People have been fascinated by music since the dawn of humanity. A
wide variety of music genres and styles has evolved, reflecting
diversity in personalities, cultures and age groups. It comes as no
surprise that human tastes in music are remarkably diverse, as nicely
exhibited by the famous quotation: "We don't like their sound, and
guitar music is on the way out" (Decca Recording Co. rejecting the
Beatles, 1962).
Yahoo! Music has amassed billions of user ratings for musical pieces.
When properly analyzed, the raw ratings encode information on how
songs are grouped, which hidden patterns link various albums, which
artists complement each other, and above all, which songs users would
like to listen to.
Such an exciting analysis introduces new scientific challenges. The
KDD Cup contest releases over 300 million ratings performed by over 1
million anonymized users. The ratings are given to different types of
items-songs, albums, artists, genres-all tied together within a known
taxonomy.
Two Tracks
The competition is divided into two tracks:
The first track is aimed at predicting scores that users gave to various items.
The second track requires separation of loved songs from other songs.
Both tracks are open to all research groups in academia and industry.
To learn more please see the KDD Cup Website for details.
Important Dates
· March 1, 2011, Registration Opens
· March 15, 2011, Competition Begins
· June 30, 2011, Competition Ends
· July 3, 2011, Winners Notified
· August 21, 2011, Workshop
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