Fall 2018 Open Tournament?
- Mike Bentley
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Fall 2018 Open Tournament?
As I plan some travel stuff for this fall, I want to make sure I'm not overlooking any already announced (or soon to be announced) open tournaments this season. Is anyone planning on writing one?
Mike Bentley
Treasurer, Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence
Adviser, Quizbowl Team at University of Washington
University of Maryland, Class of 2008
Treasurer, Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence
Adviser, Quizbowl Team at University of Washington
University of Maryland, Class of 2008
Re: Fall 2018 Open Tournament?
We'll be announcing soon an open tournament for December that is open to high school teams, college teams, grizzled veterans, and computers.
Jordan Boyd-Graber
UMD (College Park, MD), Faculty Advisor 2018-present
UC Boulder, Founder / Faculty Advisor 2014-2017
UMD (College Park, MD), Faculty Advisor 2010-2014
Princeton, Player 2004-2009
Caltech (Pasadena, CA), Player / President 2000-2004
Ark Math & Science (Hot Springs, AR), Player 1998-2000
Monticello High School, Player 1997-1998
Human-Computer Question Answering:
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UMD (College Park, MD), Faculty Advisor 2018-present
UC Boulder, Founder / Faculty Advisor 2014-2017
UMD (College Park, MD), Faculty Advisor 2010-2014
Princeton, Player 2004-2009
Caltech (Pasadena, CA), Player / President 2000-2004
Ark Math & Science (Hot Springs, AR), Player 1998-2000
Monticello High School, Player 1997-1998
Human-Computer Question Answering:
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Re: Fall 2018 Open Tournament?
It'll be hosted at UMD.
Jordan Boyd-Graber
UMD (College Park, MD), Faculty Advisor 2018-present
UC Boulder, Founder / Faculty Advisor 2014-2017
UMD (College Park, MD), Faculty Advisor 2010-2014
Princeton, Player 2004-2009
Caltech (Pasadena, CA), Player / President 2000-2004
Ark Math & Science (Hot Springs, AR), Player 1998-2000
Monticello High School, Player 1997-1998
Human-Computer Question Answering:
http://qanta.org/
UMD (College Park, MD), Faculty Advisor 2018-present
UC Boulder, Founder / Faculty Advisor 2014-2017
UMD (College Park, MD), Faculty Advisor 2010-2014
Princeton, Player 2004-2009
Caltech (Pasadena, CA), Player / President 2000-2004
Ark Math & Science (Hot Springs, AR), Player 1998-2000
Monticello High School, Player 1997-1998
Human-Computer Question Answering:
http://qanta.org/
Re: Fall 2018 Open Tournament?
It will be packet submission, but with computers helping to write the questions. (Similar to our experimental round at PACE in June.)
Jordan Boyd-Graber
UMD (College Park, MD), Faculty Advisor 2018-present
UC Boulder, Founder / Faculty Advisor 2014-2017
UMD (College Park, MD), Faculty Advisor 2010-2014
Princeton, Player 2004-2009
Caltech (Pasadena, CA), Player / President 2000-2004
Ark Math & Science (Hot Springs, AR), Player 1998-2000
Monticello High School, Player 1997-1998
Human-Computer Question Answering:
http://qanta.org/
UMD (College Park, MD), Faculty Advisor 2018-present
UC Boulder, Founder / Faculty Advisor 2014-2017
UMD (College Park, MD), Faculty Advisor 2010-2014
Princeton, Player 2004-2009
Caltech (Pasadena, CA), Player / President 2000-2004
Ark Math & Science (Hot Springs, AR), Player 1998-2000
Monticello High School, Player 1997-1998
Human-Computer Question Answering:
http://qanta.org/
Re: Fall 2018 Open Tournament?
Now I'm curious why you weren't more forthright about what is clearly the animating premise of the set. Instead, you chose to advertize an experimental set that's practically guaranteed to be full of quirks and faults as equivalent to a standard open tournament.
Jacob R., ex-Chicago
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Re: Fall 2018 Open Tournament?
This isn't exactly fair to Jordan - he didn't misrepresent his thing as equivalent to a standard open tournament, he just said "an announcement is coming soon about an open tournament." You badgered him into revealing information before he wanted to, then condemned the effort as doomed to fail before he's even had a chance to officially announce it. Can't you at least wait until he's ready to announce before making judgements?
Re: Fall 2018 Open Tournament?
Yeah, by "advertise" if you mean one, slightly vague post (which to be fair to Jordan says "computers" right there!).
Mike Cheyne
Formerly U of Minnesota
"You killed HSAPQ"--Matt Bollinger
Formerly U of Minnesota
"You killed HSAPQ"--Matt Bollinger
Re: Fall 2018 Open Tournament?
If I posted in this thread about an "open tournament" and it turned out to be a trash tournament or some vanity set, I think it would be pretty fair to call that misrepresentation, and I think people would reasonably question my motives for withholding such a core element of the set from the get-go.
(EDIT: I do apologize for being so quick to make assertions about the quality of Jordan's project, although I think it's reasonable to expect such information up front, just like it would be reasonable for players to know immediately that some open was being written with/by a bunch of middle schoolers or similar.)
(EDIT: I do apologize for being so quick to make assertions about the quality of Jordan's project, although I think it's reasonable to expect such information up front, just like it would be reasonable for players to know immediately that some open was being written with/by a bunch of middle schoolers or similar.)
Jacob R., ex-Chicago
Re: Fall 2018 Open Tournament?
Sorry for not responding earlier; I don't read the boards as closely as I used to!
I want to stress that we want to have high quality questions, and one of the prizes ($250) will be for writing the highest quality questions possible ($100 and $50 for second and third place packets). To the best of my knowledge, this is the first tournament to have monetary prizes (beyond free registration back in the day, which was a trend that sadly has disappeared along with packet sub events) for question writing.
The goal of having computers in the loop is to improve the questions from both a scientific perspective and a quiz bowl perspective. This is a quiz bowl forum, so let me focus on that first. Here's how computers can help you write better questions:
The reason that we're doing this is that we're hoping that these questions will also help computer science researchers write better systems that can answer questions automatically by avoiding stock clues and other "triggers" that make quiz bowl questions artificially easy for computers. We believe that this will result in more unique, creative, more engaging questions for a human audience.
Please stay tuned, we'll be officially announcing very soon (today if I can).
Thanks for bringing this up; one of the reasons that we've not formally announced is that we want to make sure we do a good job of framing this to encourage participation.Instead, you chose to advertize an experimental set that's practically guaranteed to be full of quirks and faults as equivalent to a standard open tournament.
I want to stress that we want to have high quality questions, and one of the prizes ($250) will be for writing the highest quality questions possible ($100 and $50 for second and third place packets). To the best of my knowledge, this is the first tournament to have monetary prizes (beyond free registration back in the day, which was a trend that sadly has disappeared along with packet sub events) for question writing.
The goal of having computers in the loop is to improve the questions from both a scientific perspective and a quiz bowl perspective. This is a quiz bowl forum, so let me focus on that first. Here's how computers can help you write better questions:
- Avoid stock clues in the leadin
- Automatically find similar questions (to find other interesting clues or avoid repetition)
- Avoid hoses (if the computer thinks the answer might be X, so might a human ... perhaps you can rephrase)
- Automate tasks like pronunciation guides and alternate answer lines (don't know if this will make it in for this iteration, but it's on our todo list!)
The reason that we're doing this is that we're hoping that these questions will also help computer science researchers write better systems that can answer questions automatically by avoiding stock clues and other "triggers" that make quiz bowl questions artificially easy for computers. We believe that this will result in more unique, creative, more engaging questions for a human audience.
Please stay tuned, we'll be officially announcing very soon (today if I can).
Jordan Boyd-Graber
UMD (College Park, MD), Faculty Advisor 2018-present
UC Boulder, Founder / Faculty Advisor 2014-2017
UMD (College Park, MD), Faculty Advisor 2010-2014
Princeton, Player 2004-2009
Caltech (Pasadena, CA), Player / President 2000-2004
Ark Math & Science (Hot Springs, AR), Player 1998-2000
Monticello High School, Player 1997-1998
Human-Computer Question Answering:
http://qanta.org/
UMD (College Park, MD), Faculty Advisor 2018-present
UC Boulder, Founder / Faculty Advisor 2014-2017
UMD (College Park, MD), Faculty Advisor 2010-2014
Princeton, Player 2004-2009
Caltech (Pasadena, CA), Player / President 2000-2004
Ark Math & Science (Hot Springs, AR), Player 1998-2000
Monticello High School, Player 1997-1998
Human-Computer Question Answering:
http://qanta.org/
Re: Fall 2018 Open Tournament?
We'll also be using a standard distribution, for what it's worth. The biggest difference will be changes to format (tossup only), eligibility (all human players eligible, computer teams welcome), and prizes for question writers.
Jordan Boyd-Graber
UMD (College Park, MD), Faculty Advisor 2018-present
UC Boulder, Founder / Faculty Advisor 2014-2017
UMD (College Park, MD), Faculty Advisor 2010-2014
Princeton, Player 2004-2009
Caltech (Pasadena, CA), Player / President 2000-2004
Ark Math & Science (Hot Springs, AR), Player 1998-2000
Monticello High School, Player 1997-1998
Human-Computer Question Answering:
http://qanta.org/
UMD (College Park, MD), Faculty Advisor 2018-present
UC Boulder, Founder / Faculty Advisor 2014-2017
UMD (College Park, MD), Faculty Advisor 2010-2014
Princeton, Player 2004-2009
Caltech (Pasadena, CA), Player / President 2000-2004
Ark Math & Science (Hot Springs, AR), Player 1998-2000
Monticello High School, Player 1997-1998
Human-Computer Question Answering:
http://qanta.org/
Re: Fall 2018 Open Tournament?
You can view the video of our past event here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf5GHwDb6Ig
And the official announcement is here:
http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic. ... 31#p349431
I'm certainly interested in suggestions for how to best convey that we're interested in soliciting quality questions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf5GHwDb6Ig
And the official announcement is here:
http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic. ... 31#p349431
I'm certainly interested in suggestions for how to best convey that we're interested in soliciting quality questions.
Jordan Boyd-Graber
UMD (College Park, MD), Faculty Advisor 2018-present
UC Boulder, Founder / Faculty Advisor 2014-2017
UMD (College Park, MD), Faculty Advisor 2010-2014
Princeton, Player 2004-2009
Caltech (Pasadena, CA), Player / President 2000-2004
Ark Math & Science (Hot Springs, AR), Player 1998-2000
Monticello High School, Player 1997-1998
Human-Computer Question Answering:
http://qanta.org/
UMD (College Park, MD), Faculty Advisor 2018-present
UC Boulder, Founder / Faculty Advisor 2014-2017
UMD (College Park, MD), Faculty Advisor 2010-2014
Princeton, Player 2004-2009
Caltech (Pasadena, CA), Player / President 2000-2004
Ark Math & Science (Hot Springs, AR), Player 1998-2000
Monticello High School, Player 1997-1998
Human-Computer Question Answering:
http://qanta.org/