Register for the first European Statistics Awards on Web Intelligence!
Eurostat [https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat] has launched the European
Statistics Awards Programme to foster engagement with the innovation
community. Additionally, competitions in the fields of Nowcasting
[https://www.su.se/polopoly_fs/1.621612.1660206065!/menu/standard/file/2022-07-nowcasting-announcement-european-statistics-awards.pdf]
and Web Intelligence are also launched to identify promising
methodologies that could improve the production of European
statistics.

The first European Statistics Award for Web Intelligence
[https://statistics-awards.eu/] is a Deduplication Challenge, which
was launched in December 2022. The focus of the challenge is to
identify potential duplicate Online Job Advertisements (OJA) on
websites. By addressing a real-world situation, this challenge aims to
facilitate the production of high quality statistics from OJA.

The Deduplication Challenge aims to devise an automated solution to
prevent double counting of OJA. Interested teams can register
themselves [https://statistics-awards.eu/] till 1 March 2023 and
prospective deadlines for the submissions are 31 March 2023 or 16
April 2023 depending on the kind of award chosen.

Interested teams, of up to five members who meet the eligibility
criteria
[https://statistics-awards.eu/competitions/4#learn_the_details], are
required to sign a non-disclosure agreement
[https://statistics-awards.eu/static/resources/2022-WI/NDA-WI-Deduplication.pdf]
to get access to 112k OJA datasets and submit their scripts to compete
to win up to a maximum of €23 000, by winning all three categories. 

Teams will be judged on two dimensions:

 	* accuracy of their script models
 	* plausible replication of their methods for European statistical
production

In addition, teams will be given an opportunity to disseminate their
work through Eurostat communication channels and present their work at
Eurostat events.

To find out more details on the European Statistical Awards Programme,
you can send an e-mail to info@statistics-awards.eu. 

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Publication Date/Time
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Participate in the Deduplication Challenge to help improve the
production of European Statistics and solve a real-world situation.