Following a successful first edition, we are pleased to announce the 2nd edition of the Large Scale Hierarchical Text Classification (LSHTC) Pascal Challenge. The LSHTC Challenge is a hierarchical text classification competition, using large datasets. This year’s challenge will increase the scale and the difficulty of the task, using data from Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org), in addition to the ODP Web directory data (www.dmoz.org).
Wikipedia laboratory is a special interest group on Wikipedia mining. The main purpose of this Web site is to share knowledge, discuss Wikipedia analysis, develop tools, etc. using Wikipedia knowledge.
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