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Little over a week to go, and the field is finalized: Boulder High Weld A Weld B Weld C Grand Junction A Grand Junction B Grand Junction C Jefferson Academy A Jefferson Academy B Jefferson Academy C Rock Canyon A Rock Canyon B Arapahoe A Arapahoe B Lake City A Lake City B Lake City C Fairview A Wait...

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I don't check the boards as often as I used to, so I missed the kerfuffle. (And it seems the youngin's prefer their Instagrams and Facebooks over old school web forums.) First, on Mohit. Mohit was in town anyway and when we had seven teams, he asked if he could play as an exhibition team. There was ...

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Updated Field:

Boulder High
Weld A
Weld B
Weld C
Grand Junction A
Grand Junction B
Grand Junction C
Jefferson Academy A
Jefferson Academy B
Jefferson Academy C
Rock Canyon A
Rock Canyon B
Arapahoe A
Arapahoe B

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Congrats to Columbia University of New York City for winning the Rocky Mountain Sectional! Final standing: 1. Columbia (UG, D1 champ) 2. Colorado A (D2 champ) 3. Kansas State A 3. Maryland 5. UCCS 6. Colorado B 7. Kansas State B 8. Colorado C Statistics (unbracketed), so UCCS is the top of the botto...

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Field update:
Boulder High
Weld A
Weld B
Weld C
Grand Junction A
Grand Junction B
Grand Junction C

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University of Colorado Trivia Buffs is pleased to announce that we will be hosting the Rocky Mountain site of the NAQT Sectional Championship Tournament on February 4, 2017. Location: This tournament will take place in the Engineering Center. Base fees: $125 for the first team from a school; $100 fo...

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On March 4, 2017, the University of Colorado will host the Colorado 2017 state championship. This is the third year NAQT has offered a Colorado State Championship. We had seventeen teams last year, and we're hoping for even more this year! More information available here (including differences betwe...

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That might work, but for consistency, it would probably be better if each packet is only recorded by one person. There's probably a way to do it so that you incrementally build up a reading of a packet over time (or give a bonus if someone reads a whole packet). I think it's best to start out with ...

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In case the QB community missed it, we had a computer-only quiz bowl tournament and had the winner face off against the California NASAT team (who got second) at the national meeting of the North American association for computational linguistics. This system beat our QANTA (it's far more conservati...

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I think this would make a great Android / iOS app, particularly if you could hook up forced Viterbi alignment to verify answers so that someone could play quiz bowl while jogging or walking. Then you could build up the set of recorded questions by asking them to record a question for every N questio...

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Big Y wrote:Here's the QANTA match.

Or an edited version with better sound

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jekbradbury wrote:By "before the end of May" do you mean we can submit a computer player up until May 31? If so I think I can put together a MetaMind submission.

We had originally said May 30, but we have some flexibility here. A MetaMind submission would be great!

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I never got the venue I wanted (and had trouble mirroring a set), so the human part of the competition won't be happening. Instead, the top computer team will play the California NASAT team. Please do consider submitting a computer team, though! Hopefully we'll have a joint human-computer tournament...

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I had some e-mails about this so wanted to clarify. Yes, you can submit computer programs to play in this tournament! And you should! However, you must submit your computer systems well in advance (before the end of May). Full instructions: https://sites.google.com/a/colorado.edu/2016-naacl-ws-human...

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The bigger problem with Chicago Open is that we're optimized for hard questions on easy things (e.g., HSNCT-level), but we're hoping to expand its cannon in the near future. I just want to remind everyone that you really do not need heavy artillery for Chicago Open. -Seth How else will it fulfill i...

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What, if any, are the logistical obstacles and limitations preventing your computer from, say, playing Chicago Open? (Other than the field being full). It requires some coordination with the question writers so that the questions can be sent in electronically. It also doesn't do bonuses yet. :) The...

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On June 16, we're planning to have a competition between the best computer quiz bowl systems and the best human quiz bowl players we can get in San Diego: https://sites.google.com/a/colorado.edu/2016-naacl-ws-human-computer-qa/shared-task I was thinking that we'd have a singles tournament to select ...

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Congrats to Grand Junction who won the NAQT Colorado championship. Omaha North placed second with Ridgeview B winning the small school division (and tied for 3rd overall). Morning stats: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jbg/qb/2016_CO_STATE/prelim/HS_individuals.html Final ranking: http://www.cs.princet...

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We had a last-minute cancellation from Cherokee Trail High School's two teams. Ft. Morgan took one of those slots, but we now have room for an additional team. If you're not already at the maximum number of teams (3) and would like to bring another team (or know of a school who'd like to get in), pl...

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We have reached our capacity of 18 teams registered and one team (Ft. Morgan, who registered a heart-breaking one minute and five seconds after Elizabeth) on the waitlist. If any team is unable to come, let us know ASAP so we can give Ft. Morgan a spot. You can see the schedule here (hopefully final...

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If you're in Colorado, please register for the NAQT State Championship to be held on March 5 on the University of Colorado Boulder campus. We currently have registrations from the following schools (14/18 teams): North Park High School Rock Canyon Grand Junction High School Jefferson Academy Seconda...

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Congrats to NMSU who won the first collegiate quiz bowl event in Colorado this millennium. Perfect record in D2! (The only division we had.) Thanks to the three other teams for coming out and participating in their first collegiate trivia event and thanks to Yogesh Raut for ably moderating all day. ...

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On March 5, 2016, the University of Colorado will host the Colorado 2016 state championship. This is the second year NAQT has offered a Colorado State Championship. We had ten teams last year, and we're hoping for even more this year! More information available here (including differences between kn...

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The challenge with this as opposed to chess is that especially with concrete quizbowl clues, I'm not sure what the attraction would be. If both sides can google, the only variable would be computer speed and typing ability. For the sake of argument, let's say that it's a quiz bowl variant where the...

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Our research group just had a discussion about centaur quiz bowl to combine computers and machines in playing quiz bowl. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Chess This could take a number of forms: 1. You get to Google during the question, the machine learns how to recreate your Google searches /...

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Video is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTXJCEvCDYk Thanks so much to Ken for being a photogenic good sport and going up against QANTA. I think we'll be doing another exhibition match at HSNCT (If R goes along, that is). While we've focused on going after notable opponents, we shoul...

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Perhaps, but no one outside of quizbowl knows who he is, whereas everyone (or at least a much larger percentage of the population) knows about Ken Jennings. Yeah, that was our thinking as well. And we're trying to work our way up to QB powerhouses. To those in Seattle: half the spaces are gone. RSV...

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Sorry to resurrect a dead thread, but we have some code to do question classification here:

https://github.com/miyyer/qb

you can download the code and then run the target

make data/classifier/category.pkl

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We've found someone, thanks for those who expressed interest!

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We're running an event Oct. 2 at the University of Washington (spectators welcome): https://www.cs.washington.edu/research/nlp/qanta However, our source of questions fell through, so for this event to happen, we need the community's help in finding questions. We have a budget of $150 and we need 50 ...

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A group presenting at the cs224d.stanford.edu poster session yesterday (the class is taught by Mohit's former boss Richard Socher, who mentioned QANTA in class) said they got 5% better performance than QANTA on both history and lit using Tree-LSTMs. Richard was also on the original QANTA paper. We ...

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I get it. It would be interesting to see how it does against a top qb team when it's more developed. Agreed. We do intend to do more exhibition matches. We're planning one on the West Coast in early Fall (Bay Area or Seattle), Montreal in December, DC in early spring, and then a national tournament...

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Not that this really matters, but I'm just curious: why were Jeopardy players chosen rather than top quiz bowl players? NAQT did the choosing for us, and I think they optimized for something that would look good in a press release. I think they did a great job; it was a really fun match and neither...

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Edmund wrote:Question: How much time did you invest in getting QANTA to sound more like Sinistar before committing to a live game?

We chose a built in TTS system from OS X. This is "Tom".

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What we did: During our demo, we were showing what the computer was thinking; i.e., the the output from the guesser and the associated scores. Is there video of this? We tried to use Quicktime to get a screen capture, but it flaked out while we were still giving our introduction. This is what it lo...

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bird bird bird bird bird wrote:
naqt.com wrote:NAQT is pleased that its 2015 High School National Championship Tournament will showcase the first quiz bowl match in which a computer goes thumb-to-thumb against a team of humans.
full details

Video available here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqsUaprYMOw

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Could the computer use voice recognition to get the words? That seems more realistic, especially to the reality that moderator mispronunciations etc. happen and screw players up (so the computer should get screwed too). I don't think commercial voice recognition technology is at a point where it'll...

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I created a new post about the potential rule sets for human / computer quiz bowl matches here:

http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewto ... 91#p303372

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Last night, we had our first exhibition match between a computer that can play quiz bowl and a team of former Jeopardy champions. It was a lot of fun, but ultimately inconclusive. The game ended in a tie. At the risk of hubris, I hope that this will become a more common phenomenon in the future. Tha...

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And the end result after 40 tossups is 200 vs. 200. In a sign of poor planning, there was no contingency for a tie. I was expecting the humans to trounce QANTA.

We hope to make more appearances and to compete in a full tournament next year.

We'll be posting the full video on YouTube soon.

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Colorado held its first NAQT tournament on April 11 (hopefully the first of many). Congratulations to Fairview B, who won the tournament with an undefeated record: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jbg/qb/CO_STATE_NAQT/NAQT%202015_standings.html Fairview A and Rye A rounded out the top three teams. Thank...

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Field update (16. March):

North Park Schools: 1
Lake City Community School: 3
Trinidad High School: 1
Las Animas High School: 1
Rye High School: 2
Fairview: 2

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On April 11, Fairview High School in Boulder, in conjunction with the University of Colorado, will hold Colorado’s first National Academic Quiz Tournaments (NAQT) trivia tournament. If you’re going to the Colorado Knowledge Bowl State Championship, this will be a good warmup and a chance to scope ou...

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In case anyone reads this long-dormant thread, I'm now at CU Boulder and would love it if a team coalesced here.

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We just gave out $120 in prizes for folks who annotated questions here: http://qb.umiacs.umd.edu/tutorial.php Some of you might remember that a few years ago some students and I put out a web app that folks could use to practice questions. It proved very popular and helped spawn fuller-featured plat...

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This will be held in the first or second weekend of August, as is traditional. What would people like to see/be willing to travel to Richmond or one or two mirror sites for? We've been looking for a venue to demo our quiz bowl-playing robot. We missed the boat on the national competitions, but this...

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What happens if, say, something like Three Sisters is mentioned in a Chekhov tossup? ... Does the rule in the FAQ about "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" apply to these situations as well? Yes, the rule in the FAQ also applies there (including the caveat about how it's tricky). In general, w...

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Some of you might remember that a few years ago some students and I put out a web app that folks could use to practice questions. It proved very popular and helped spawn fuller-featured platforms like Protobowl. We used that information for a research paper that you can read here: http://www.umiacs....

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An internet tool that would allow users to submit plaintext questions (with markup for simple, necessary formatting like required answers and italicizing) would be good for this. Using something similar to HSAPQ's QEMS program, individual players from packet-submitting teams could submit questions ...

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Hey Jerry, is it possible to get a database dump at some point? I'd like to use this to import some questions en masse to the scobowl bot. Yeah, I'll get in touch with you in a few days. Any chance on making this publicly available? I have a couple of ideas using qb data that I'll in all likelihood...

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