eBay 2023 University Machine Learning Competition - Summer 2024 Internship Prize
Challenge Overview
eBay is pleased to announce its 5th Annual University Challenge in the space of Machine Learning on an e-commerce dataset. More students than ever before participated in the 2022 competition and we want to thank everyone who participated! We are confident that this year’s challenge will again attract widespread interest.
The prize for the winners will be a summer internship with eBay for the summer of 2024.
The problem we invite you to consider for this year is to build a model that can accurately extract and label the named entities in the dataset of item titles on eBay. Named Entities are the semantic strings/words/phrases that refer to people, brands, organizations, locations, styles, materials, patterns, product names, units of measure, clothing sizes, etc.
After signing a contest agreement, university student teams can start using our dataset to solve a real-world e-commerce challenge. We sincerely hope that making this real-world dataset available will entice students to further explore the e-commerce domain and develop novel approaches to solve complex problems that can positively impact the community and industry at large.