Contest

Algorithm & Coding Contest

• LeetCode Contest

• HackerRank

• ACM/ICPC

• Top Coder

• POJ

• ZOJ

Machine Learning & Data Mining Contest

• Kaggle

• KDD Cup

• ByteCup 2016, hosted by Toutiao, 2016.

Natural Language Processing & Information Retrieval Contest

• CIPS-SOGOU QA Contest

• SQuAD

• MS MARCO

• TREC

• NTCIR

• Amazon Alexa Prize

  • Introduction: Amazon announces the 2018 teams selected to compete for the Alexa Prize, a $3.5 million university challenge to advance human-computer interaction.

  • Time: December 4, 2017 to November 2018

• DSTC

  • Dialog System Technology Challenges

  • Three different tracks, (1) Sentence Selection: using the Ubuntu corpus and Flex Data: Student – Advisor dialogues, (2) Sentence Generation (knowledge-grounded conversation challenge at DSTC7) and (3) Audio Visual Scene-aware dialog.

• QuAC

  • Question Answering in Context. A dataset for Question Answering in Context that contains 14K information-seeking QA dialogs (100K questions in total). Paper and Leaderboard

• CoQA

  • A Conversational Question Answering Challenge. A novel dataset for building Conversational Question Answering systems.1 Our dataset contains 127k questions with answers, obtained from 8k conversations about text passages from seven diverse domains. Paper and Leaderboard