- 06 Dec 2017application deadline
- 09 Dec 2017event
- 12 Dec 2017short list
- 15 Dec 2017presentations
- 18 Dec 2017winners announcement
- 06 Dec 2024today
What?
Machine Learning Hackathon
The art of progress lies in the power of extracting structure out of chaos. Strengthen your diligence and get ready to navigate through a realm of unstructured content! Keep in mind to always leave the data better than you found it. All dots turn connecTable on December 9th.
You get a collection of PDF files that are, by design, unstructured documents. Their internal format only contains information about the absolute positioning of elements on the page. The information presented in them is, however, often structured by nature: tables, ordered lists, forms, charts, etc.
You can have data without information, but you can’t have information without data. So, the idea(l) is to enjoy uncovering “all things structured” and provide the ability to convert the resulted data into valuable information.
Extracting valuable structured data from unstructured content turns out to be a difficult challenge. ML techniques are of massive help in this problem. Since we are talking about textual data presented in a visual manner, both NLP and Computer Vision methods can be applied. What is your weapon of mass extraction?
We’ll appreciate the quality of your research with a focus on your vision and the creative angles you approach this challenge.
The best solutions were rewarded with prizes worth a total value of up to 1500 USD.
Hackatune in!
Submissions
Lasso Net of Principled Likelihood Maximizer
M1337
Classical Jokers
Sherlock
The Mean Squares
MintyChocolate
Artificial Intelligent Guys
Qubits
Brute Force
manifold_Tenderfoots
Untitled
Codes and Chords
BUT
The Hive
CMOS Torino
NoOne
Next Phase
Since there were so many teams signed up for Textract, we adopted an additional selection phase. Following the Jury’s assessment, the following 6 teams have been selected to thoroughly present Saturday’s work:
Artificial Intelligent Guys
Brute Force
CMOS Torino
Codes and Chords
The Hive
The Mean Squares
All presentations will be held on Friday, 15th of December, at The University of Bucharest – Faculty Of Mathematics And Computer Science (Academiei nr. 14), starting at 18:00.
Winners
It’s rewarding to see Textract growing. This year’s edition was substantially more productive than the last. The fact that more and more people are interested in Machine Learning is empowering, as it continues to expand the ML community we’re glad to be a part of. Along with an increase in the number of participants, the overall level of the competition was superior. It was captivating to witness diversity in approaches and we appreciate the quality of the submitted results at the end of the hackathon.
(drum roll) And the winners are:
Brute Force
Prize: 1000 USD gross value.
The Mean Squares
Prize: 500 USD gross value.
Congrats!