ALEXA PRIZE SOCIALBOT GRAND CHALLENGE 4

The Alexa Prize is a global competition for university students dedicated to accelerating the field of conversational AI.

The way humans interact with machines is at an inflection point and conversational artificial intelligence (AI) is at the center of the transformation.

Alexa, the voice service that powers Amazon Echo, enables customers to interact with the world around them in a more intuitive way using only their voice.

The Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge is a competition for university students dedicated to accelerating the field of conversational AI. The competition is focused on creating a socialbot, an Alexa skill that converses coherently and engagingly with humans on popular topics and news events. Participating teams will advance several areas of conversational AI including knowledge acquisition, natural language understanding, natural language generation, context modeling, commonsense reasoning and dialog planning. Through the innovative work of students, Alexa customers will have novel, engaging conversations. And, the immediate feedback from Alexa customers will help students improve their algorithms much faster than previously possible.

COMPETITION CALENDAR: The Competition starts on October 19, 2020 and ends in July 2021 the "Competition Period"). The Competition phases are noted in the calendar below. The dates are approximate and are subject to change at Sponsor’s discretion.

PHASES	STARTS ON:	ENDS ON:
PHASE 1:Participant Application Period	September 9, 2020	October 6, 2020 at 11:59 PM PT
PHASE 2: Sponsor Application Review Period	October 7, 2020	October 21, 2020
PHASE 3: Participant Notification Period/Onboarding	Between October 22 and November 6, 2020
PHASE 4: Initial Skills Development Period	November 9, 2020	December 18, 2020 at  11:59 PM PT
PHASE 5: Skill Certification Period	December 21, 2020	December 30, 2020
PHASE 6: Internal Amazon Beta Period	January 4, 2021	January 15, 2021
PHASE 7: Initial Feedback Period	January 18, 2021	February 26, 2021
PHASE 8: Quarterfinals Interaction Period	March 2, 2021	April 30, 2021
PHASE 9: Semifinals Interaction Period	May 4, 2021	June 25, 2021
PHASE 10: Additional Feedback Phase	July 5, 2021	July 23, 2021
PHASE 11: Finals Event	July 2021
WINNERS ANNOUNCED	August 2021

ELIGIBILITY: To be eligible to enter the Competition, you must: (1) be enrolled as a full-time undergraduate or post-graduate student at an accredited college or university (other than colleges or universities located in any of the restricted jurisdictions outlined below) (“Universities”) and remain a full-time student in good standing at such University while participating in the Competition; (2) be at or above the age of majority in your country, state, province or jurisdiction of residence at the time of entry; and (3) not be a person or entity under U.S. export controls or sanctions.

 

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