DBpedia runs a NLP competition called textext

[Amirouche Boubekki]

Background

DBpedia and Wikidata currently focus primarily on representing factual knowledge as contained in Wikipedia infoboxes. A vast amount of information, however, is contained in the unstructured Wikipedia article texts. With the DBpedia Open Text Extraction Challenge, we aim to spur knowledge extraction from Wikipedia article texts in order to dramatically broaden and deepen the amount of structured DBpedia/Wikipedia data and provide a platform for benchmarking various extraction tools.

Mission

Wikipedia has become the ubiquitous source of knowledge for the world enabling humans to lookup definitions, quickly become familiar with new topics, read up background infos for news event and many more - even settling coffee house arguments via a quick mobile research. The mission of DBpedia in general is to harvest Wikipedia’s knowledge, refine and structure it and then disseminate it on the web - in a free and open manner - for IT users and businesses.

http://wiki.dbpedia.org/textext

[Alex]

I have heard about this challenge, but it distributes funds and is intended for novel short programs and, as I understand, not for almost complete systems:

https://www.general-ai-challenge.org/

[Amirouche Boubekki]

On Monday, March 6, 2017 at 9:59:03 PM UTC+1, Alex wrote:

I have heard about this challenge, but it distributes funds and is intended for novel short programs

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean by "it distributes funds" and "is intended for novel short programs"
 

[Alex]

Those epithets I devoted to https://www.general-ai-challenge.org

I think that there is pressing need to test in practice all the ideas and systems that have been developed so far. Every competition is welcome.