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                         FEIII Challenge 2018

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The Financial Entity Identification and Information Integration (FEIII) Challenges are open data challenges in the finance space. Sign up to participate, download the data, submit your solution, and come talk about your work at the ACM SIGMOD / DSMM 2018 Workshop on Friday June 15, Houston, TX. USA dsmmworkshop.org

The 2018 FEIII challenge task is to enhance a given "ego" network dataset.
Each ego network starts with a seed financial entity. We provide properties
for entities as well as information about relationships to other entities. We also include information on potential partners, suppliers and competitors. Some parts of the network and properties are not validated.

A simple enhancement could be to perform entity resolution and link financial entities across two or more resources. This task could also include entity-pair alignment, where both a pair of parent entities, and a pair of child entities, are linked across resources.
One could also confirm a known relationship or further validate a predicted relationship, i.e., increase confidence in the property or relationship. A more difficult challenge, and hence a more valuable enhancement,  would be to predict an unknown relationship. Of particular interest is identifying competitors.

TIMELINE

February                        Release dataset
Friday March 16                 Abstract submission to DSMM Workshop.
April                           Release of test dataset and scoring
Friday May 18                   Short paper submission to DSMM Workshop.
Friday June 15                  DSMM Workshop.