bitgrit and CrowdPlat partner to host an AI competition for NCATS
This competition is part of the NASA Tournament Lab and hosted by NCBI, NCATS and NIH.
We are thrilled to announce that we have just launched a new AI competition today, November 9th, on our platform. This competition, titled LitCoin NLP Challenge: Part 1, was made in close partnership with NCBI (The National Center for Biotechnology Information), NCATS (The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences) and NIH (National Institutes of Health).
These institutions, in collaboration with bitgrit and crowdsourcing platform CrowdPlat, have come together to bring you this challenge where you can (1) deploy your data-driven technology solutions towards accelerating scientific research in medicine and (2) ensure that data from biomedical publications can be maximally leveraged and reach a wide range of biomedical researchers.
This competition has been divided into 2 sub-phases. Each phase is designed to spur innovation in the field of natural language processing, asking competitors to design systems that can accurately recognize scientific concepts from the text of scientific articles, connect those concepts into knowledge assertions, and determine if that claim is a novel finding or background information.
- Part 1: Given only an abstract text, the goal is to find all the nodes or biomedical entities (position in text and BioLink Model Category).
- Part 2: Given the abstract and the nodes annotated from it, the goal is to find all the relationships between them (pair of nodes, BioLink Model Predicate and novelty).
Timeline
Competition phase-1 started today, Nov. 9th, 2021 and will end on Dec. 23rd, 2021 at 10pm UTC.
Competition phase-2 will start on Dec. 27th, 2021.
Prizes
This competition has a prize pool of $100,000 with a total of 7 winners. There is one special condition: in order to be eligible for the prize money, participants must be a U.S. citizen or a U.S. permanent resident. Nevertheless, non-U.S. citizens and non-permanent residents can participate as well. However, such non-U.S. citizens and non-permanent residents are not eligible to win a monetary prize (in whole or in part).
To learn more and sign up for a chance at one of the top prizes and a top spot on our leaderboard, click here.
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