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.

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