Official Video (in Korean)
Clova AI would like to proudly announce Naver AI Hackathon 2019, the third hackathon organized by Naver Corporation. Applicants will be asked to solve speech recognition-related tasks.
Please refer to the following contents and the official hackathon website for further information.
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Schedule
Application | Preliminary Round – Document Screening | Second Round – Online | Final Round – Online | Final Round-Offline |
Now – September 4 (deadline) | September 5 – 6 | September 16 – October 4 | October 7 – 10 | October 12 – 13 |
Any individual (or any group consisting of up to three people) that is interested in artificial intelligence is welcome | 100 teams having been shortlisted for the first round | held on NSML (online) | 30 teams having been shortlisted for the final round (online) | held at the ConnectOne Chuncheon center (offline) |
Eligibility
Any individual (or any group consisting of up to three people) that is interested in artificial intelligence is welcome to register for this contest.
Missions
- Preliminary round
(100 applicants will be selected through the careful document screening procedures and invited to the next round) - Second round: speech recognition by using the phone network database having conducted in Korean
- Final round: making of the optimized model by considering the recognition rate, speed, and model size
Benefits
- T-shirts and other souvenirs will be offered to the teams having been shortlisted for the final round.
- The following cash prizes will be awarded to the winners: KRW 3,000,000 for the champion, KRW 1,500,000 for the first runner-up, and KRW 500,000 for the second runner-up.
- Seasoned researchers from Clova AI Speech and NSML will engage in the hackathon as mentors, providing the participants with valuable technical advice and mentoring opportunities.

Links
Official Website (in Korean)
Github
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