Challenge Programme
Competition has always driven people to achieve results that are better than they might have achieved working alone. Knowledge 4 All Foundation runs its highly successful Challenges programme, enabling its members to create their own Machine Learning challenges for each other and to disseminate their results in K4A-sponsored workshops. The Challenges also enabled diverse real-world applications from other fields to be introduced to the machine learning community. More than twenty challenges were held during the lifetime of PASCAL2 and PASCAL, some now so established that they have steered research agendas across the world; their regular workshops are almost conferences in their own right. From sign language to mind-reading, and heart sounds to distorted galaxies, here are some of the challenges.Past projects
PASCAL Large Scale Learning Challenge
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Experimental Design Challenge
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Learning Propagation Models from Social Networks
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Large Scale Hierarchical Text Classification 2009, 2012
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Unsupervised Grammar Induction
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MEG mind reading challenge
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Visual Object Classes Challenges 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
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Pautomac competition: Learning Probabilistic Automata and Hidden Markov Models
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Recognising Textual Entailment
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GRavitational lEnsing Accuracy Testing (GREAT08, GREAT10 & GREAT3)
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Zulu: an interactive learning competition
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KDD cup 2009: Fast Scoring on Large Databases
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Type I and Type II Errors for Multiple Simultaneous Hyppothesis Testing Challenge
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Semisupervised and unsupervised Morpheme Analysis — Morpho Challenge
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WCCI 2010 Active Learning Challenge
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Separating and recognising speech in natural environments
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Exploration and Exploitation in content optimisation
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UAI 2010 Approximate Inference Evaluation
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Unsupervised and Transfer Learning Challenge
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Classifying Heart Audio Challenge
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GREAT08 Challenge
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Causality Challenge #1: Causation and Prediction Challenge
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Human-machine comparisons of consonant recognition in noise challenge
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Graph Labelling Challenge: Application to Web Spam Detection Challenge
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Visual Object Classes Challenge 2007
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Unsupervised Morpheme Analysis — Morpho Challenge 2007
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Agnostic Learning vs. Prior Knowledge Challenge
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Third Recognising Textual Entailment Challenge
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Learning when Test and Training Inputs have Different Distributions Challenge
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Computer-Assisted Stemmatology Challenge
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Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion Challenge
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Visual Object Classes Challenge
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Exploration vs. Exploitation Challenge
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Unsupervised Segmentation of Words into Morphemes Challenge
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Second Recognising Textual Entailment Challenge
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Recognising Textual Entailment Challenge
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XML Challenge
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Performance Prediction Challenge
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Inferring Relevance from Eye Movements Challenge
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BCI Competition III Challenge
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PASCAL Ontology Learning Challenge
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101 Visual Object Classes Challenge
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Assessing ML methodologies to Extract Implicit relations from documents Challenge
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Large Hybrid Networks Challenge
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Evaluating Predictive Uncertainty Challenge
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Neural Machine Translation 4 Education
Cracking the language barrier for education in UNESCO Member States, with special focus on developing countries that have "fragmentary" or "weak/no" machine translation support for educational texts
Probabilistic Automata Learning Competition
Challenge: 1 February - 8 September 2012
RTE-7: Recognizing Textual Entailment (7th round)
Challenge: 29 April - 25 October 2011
Second Large Scale Hierarchical Text classification challenge
Challenge: 15 January - 5 September 2011
Unsupervised and Transfer Learning Challenge
Challenge: 25 December 2010 - 15 April 2011
CHiME – Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge
Challenge: 1 September 2010 - 1 September 2011
Morpho Challenge 2010 – Semi-supervised and Unsupervised Analysis
Challenge: 5 March - 16 July 2010
4th Recognizing Textual Entailment Challenge
Challenge: 1 September 2007 - 1 January 2009
Large Scale Hierarchical Text Classification
Challenge: 1 July - 31 December 2009
KDD cup 2009: Fast Scoring on a Large Database
Challenge: 10 March - 11 May 2009
Causality challenge Pot-luck (NIPS 2008): bring your own problem
Challenge: 1 September - 12 November 2008
Causality Challenge #1: Causation and Prediction Challenge
Challenge: 15 December 2007 - 30 April 2008
Human-machine comparisons of consonant recognition in noise challenge
Challenge: 1 December 2007 - 31 March 2008
Human-machine comparisons of consonant recognition in noise
Challenge: 1 December 2007 - 31 March 2008
Computer-Assisted Stemmatology Challenge
Challenge: 6 October 2006 - 14 April 2007
Unsupervised Morpheme Analysis — Morpho Challenge 2007
Challenge: 1 October 2006 - 21 September 2007
Learning when Test and Training Inputs have Different Distributions Challenge
Challenge: 1 June 2005 - 30 April 2007
Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion Challenge
Challenge: 1 February 2006 - 31 January 2007
Graph Labelling Challenge: Application to Web Spam Detection Challenge
Challenge: 1 January 2007 - 1 January 2008
Third Recognising Textual Entailment Challenge
Challenge: 1 December 2006 - 1 June 2007
Agnostic Learning vs. Prior Knowledge Challenge
Challenge: 1 October 2006 - 1 August 2007
Type I and Type II Errors for Multiple Simultaneous Hyppothesis Testing Challenge
Challenge: 1 January 2006 - 1 February 2007
Second Recognising Textual Entailment Challenge
Challenge: 1 October 2005 - 10 April 2006
Unsupervised Segmentation of Words into Morphemes Challenge
Challenge: 1 September 2005 - 12 April 2006
Inferring Relevance from Eye Movements Challenge
Challenge: 1 March - 1 September 2005
Evaluating Predictive Uncertainty Challenge
Challenge: 1 September - 12 December 2004
Assessing ML methodologies to Extract Implicit relations from documents Challenge
Challenge: 1 June 2004 - 28 February 2005
