AI

Information Retrieval Challenge

Period: 13-11-2023 - 02-02-2024University of Twente

Let talented students from the Master Computer Science and the Master Interaction Technology help you out with a challenge related to information retrieval!

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Description

After learning the basics of Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval and Machine Learning, the master students are ready to put their knowledge all into practice in a data driven consultancy project. You can bring your question and data and let students consult you on what you can (or maybe cannot) learn from your data.

✅ Key features of the challenge

  • Course: Advanced Project in Information Retrieval
  • Programme: Master Computer Science and Master Interaction Technology
  • Students per team: 2-3 students
  • No. of hours spent per team: 200 hours
  • Duration: November 12 – February 2
  • Supervision: Student teams are mostly supervised by researchers in the company.
  • Deliverables: Presentation and report with recommendations. Further scientific publications are welcome.
  • Company time investment: 8-12 hours
  • Participation fee: €750,- (ex tax, charged by Master Challenge (NOT the university)).

📑 Challenge Examples

The student teams can work on challenges that require information retrieval techniques to come up with a solution. Some examples:

  • Landmark and object-based image retrieval
  • Image retrieval from place recognition under image corruption
  • Conversational search in archives & museums
  • Biopsy information integration and retrieval
  • Vehicle type identification from images
  • Chatbot for personal data retrieval

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🏢 Company requirement

  • Any company (startup/scale-up/corporate/incubator/NGO) with at least two founders/employees working full time in the company.
  • In business for at least 6 months.
  • Available dataset (there is time for data understanding / cleaning, but this should not require too much work).

💰 Costs

To help facilitate this challenge a participation fee of €750,- (ex tax) per team applies (charged by Master Challenge and NOT the university).

❗️You will only be charged when matched to a team.

📨 How to apply

You can submit the challenge directly through the website. Provide a title that summarises the challenge. Subsequently, briefly elaborate on your challenge (max. 150 words).

Click 👉 here for a template you could use.

🗓 Planning

  • November 9: Deadline for submitting your challenge
  • November 9 (or sooner): Receiving message if your challenge is approved by the Course Coordinator
  • November 13-16: Matching phase
  • November 17: Our matching algorithm will create perfect matches
  • November 20: Kick-off meeting with your team (hand over data to the team)
  • January 30, 8:45 – 10:30: Final presentations in time slots of 30 minutes (after you are matched to a team, we will schedule the time slots).
  • February 2: Receive the final report

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