## ENTRY IN THIS COMPETITION CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE OFFICIAL COMPETITION RULES. **[See Section 3.18 for defined terms](#18-terms)** *The Competition named below is a skills-based competition to promote and further the field of data science. You must register via the Competition Website to enter. To enter the Competition, you must agree to these Official Competition Rules, which incorporate by reference the provisions and content of the Competition Website and any Specific Competition Rules herein (collectively, the "Rules"). Please read these Rules carefully before entry to ensure you understand and agree. You further agree that Submission in the Competition constitutes agreement to these Rules. You may not submit to the Competition and are not eligible to receive the prizes associated with this Competition unless you agree to these Rules. These Rules form a binding legal agreement between you and the Competition Sponsor with respect to the Competition. Your competition Submissions must conform to the requirements stated on the Competition Website. Your Submissions will be scored based on the evaluation metric described on the Competition Website. Subject to compliance with the Competition Rules, Prizes, if any, will be awarded to Participants with the best scores, based on the merits of the data science models submitted. See below for the complete Competition Rules.* **You cannot sign up to Kaggle from multiple accounts and therefore you cannot enter or submit from multiple accounts.** --- ### 1. COMPETITION-SPECIFIC TERMS #### 1. COMPETITION TITLE AI in Emergency Medicine - Turkiye (AI-EMT) #### 2. COMPETITION SPONSOR Informatiqs Community Organization Organized by: Kutluk Atalay (Community President), Ozan Mohurcu (Community Vice President), and Olaf Yunus Laitinen Imanov (Lead Competition Organizer) #### 3. COMPETITION SPONSOR ADDRESS Informatiqs Community Organization Contact via Kaggle Competition Discussion Forum or the official Informatiqs community communication channels. #### 4. COMPETITION WEBSITE https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/ai-emergency-medicine-turkiye #### 5. TOTAL PRIZES AVAILABLE This is a non-monetary, community-recognition competition. No cash prizes are awarded. The following non-monetary prizes are available: - First Place: Official Informatiqs Community Champion Certificate, permanent recognition on the Informatiqs community leaderboard, and featured solution write-up publication in Informatiqs community channels. - Second Place: Official Informatiqs Community Excellence Certificate and recognition on the community leaderboard. - Third Place: Official Informatiqs Community Merit Certificate and recognition on the community leaderboard. - All participants who submit at least one valid scored submission will receive an Official Informatiqs Participation Certificate. #### 6. WINNER LICENSE TYPE Open Source. Winners must license their winning Submission and the source code used to generate the Submission under an Open Source Initiative-approved license (see [www.opensource.org](http://www.opensource.org)) that in no event limits commercial use of such code or model containing or depending on such code. #### 7. DATA ACCESS AND USE You may access and use the Competition Data for non-commercial purposes only, including for participating in the Competition and on Kaggle.com forums, and for academic research and education. The Competition Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any Participant who uses the Competition Data other than as permitted by the Competition Website and these Rules. The Competition Data is entirely synthetic and does not contain or derive from real patient records or personally identifiable clinical information. It was generated under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. Full license terms are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ --- ### 2. COMPETITION-SPECIFIC RULES In addition to the provisions of the General Competition Rules below, you understand and agree to these Competition-Specific Rules required by the Competition Sponsor: #### 1. TEAM LIMITS a. The maximum Team size is four (4). b. Team mergers are allowed and can be performed by the Team leader. In order to merge, the combined Team must have a total Submission count less than or equal to the maximum allowed as of the Team Merger Deadline. The maximum allowed is the number of Submissions per day multiplied by the number of days the competition has been running. The Team Merger Deadline is five (5) days before the Final Submission Deadline. #### 2. SUBMISSION LIMITS a. You may submit a maximum of five (5) Submissions per day. b. You may select up to two (2) Final Submissions for judging on the private leaderboard. If no selection is made prior to the Final Submission Deadline, the system will automatically select the two (2) Submissions with the highest public leaderboard scores. #### 3. COMPETITION TIMELINE a. Competition Timeline dates (including Entry Deadline, Final Submission Deadline, Start Date, and Team Merger Deadline, as applicable) are reflected on the competition's Overview > Timeline page. b. The private leaderboard will be released no later than seven (7) days after the Final Submission Deadline. #### 4. COMPETITION DATA a. Data Access and Use. You may access and use the Competition Data for non-commercial purposes only, including for participating in the Competition and on Kaggle.com forums, and for academic research and education. The Competition Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any Participant who uses the Competition Data other than as permitted by the Competition Website and these Rules. The Competition Data is subject to the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. Full terms are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ b. Data Security. You agree to use reasonable and suitable measures to prevent persons who have not formally agreed to these Rules from gaining access to the Competition Data. You agree not to transmit, duplicate, publish, redistribute or otherwise provide or make available the Competition Data to any party not participating in the Competition. You agree to notify Kaggle immediately upon learning of any possible unauthorized transmission of or unauthorized access to the Competition Data and agree to work with Kaggle to rectify any unauthorized transmission or access. c. Data Nature and Limitations. The Competition Data is entirely synthetic. It was generated using a mechanistic simulation framework calibrated against published epidemiological parameters. It does not represent real patients, real hospitals, or real clinical outcomes in Turkiye or any other jurisdiction. No warranty is made regarding the clinical applicability of any model developed using this dataset. Models developed in this competition must not be used for clinical decision-making without independent validation on real-world data. d. Prohibited Use. The `disposition` column present in `train.csv` and `supplemental_data.csv` encodes a post-decision clinical variable (ED discharge disposition) that constitutes a direct proxy for the target variables. Use of this column as a predictor feature in any submitted model is prohibited and constitutes data leakage. Any submission found to have used this feature will be disqualified. #### 5. WINNER LICENSE a. Under Section 2.8 (Winners Obligations) of the General Rules below, you hereby grant and will grant the Competition Sponsor the following license with respect to your Submission if you are a Competition winner: You hereby license and will license your winning Submission and the source code used to generate the Submission under an Open Source Initiative-approved license (see [www.opensource.org](http://www.opensource.org)) that in no event limits commercial use of such code or model containing or depending on such code. For generally commercially available software that you used to generate your Submission that is not owned by you, but that can be procured by the Competition Sponsor without undue expense, you do not need to grant the license in the preceding Section for that software. In the event that input data or pretrained models with an incompatible license are used to generate your winning solution, you do not need to grant an open source license in the preceding Section for that data and/or model(s). b. Winners may be required to provide a detailed written description of how the winning Submission was generated, to the Competition Sponsor's specifications, as outlined in Section 2.8 (Winners Obligations). This description must include: model architecture and rationale, preprocessing and feature engineering pipeline, loss function and optimization details, training hyperparameters and computational environment, and a link to a public code repository with complete and reproducible instructions sufficient to regenerate the submitted predictions from the provided data. #### 6. EXTERNAL DATA AND TOOLS a. You may use data other than the Competition Data ("External Data") to develop and test your Submissions. However, you will ensure the External Data is either publicly available and equally accessible to use by all Participants of the Competition for purposes of the competition at no cost to the other Participants, or satisfies the Reasonableness criteria as outlined in Section 2.6.b below. The ability to use External Data under this Section does not limit your other obligations under these Competition Rules, including but not limited to Section 2.8 (Winners Obligations). All External Data sources used must be disclosed in the final solution write-up submitted by winners. b. The use of external data and models is acceptable unless specifically prohibited by the Host. Because of the potential costs or restrictions associated with obtaining rights to use external data or certain software and associated tools, their use must be reasonably accessible to all and of minimal cost. The Host will employ an assessment of whether or not the following criteria can exclude the use of the particular LLM, dataset, or tool: 1. Are Participants being excluded from a competition because of the excessive costs for access to certain LLMs, external data, or tools that might be used by other Participants. The Host will assess the excessive cost concern by applying a Reasonableness Standard. The Reasonableness Standard will be determined and applied by the Host in light of things like cost thresholds and accessibility. 2. By way of example only, a small subscription charge to use additional elements of a large language model such as Gemini Advanced are acceptable if meeting the Reasonableness Standard of Sec. 8.2. Purchasing a license to use a proprietary dataset that exceeds the cost of a prize in the competition would not be considered reasonable. Given that this is a non-monetary prize competition, the use of any proprietary dataset or tool requiring a paid commercial license is not considered reasonable and is therefore prohibited. c. Automated Machine Learning Tools (AMLT). Individual Participants and Teams may use automated machine learning tools (AMLT) (e.g., Google AutoML, H2O Driverless AI, etc.) to create a Submission, provided that the Participant or Team ensures that they have an appropriate license to the AMLT such that they are able to comply with the Competition Rules. d. Pre-trained Models. Participants may use publicly available pre-trained models (e.g., models from Hugging Face, PyTorch Hub, or similar public repositories) subject to the Reasonableness Standard in Section 2.6.b above. All pre-trained models used must be disclosed in the final solution write-up. #### 7. ELIGIBILITY a. This competition is open exclusively to members of the Informatiqs community who join via the official competition invitation link. b. Members of the organizing team, specifically Kutluk Atalay, Ozan Mohurcu, and Olaf Yunus Laitinen Imanov, are ineligible to compete, submit, or receive prizes or certificates in the competitive standings. c. Unless otherwise stated in the Competition-Specific Rules above or prohibited by internal policies of the Competition Entities, employees, interns, contractors, officers and directors of Competition Entities may enter and participate in the Competition, but are not eligible to win any Prizes. "Competition Entities" means the Competition Sponsor, Kaggle Inc., and their respective parent companies, subsidiaries and affiliates. If you are such a Participant from a Competition Entity, you are subject to all applicable internal policies of your employer with respect to your participation. d. Participants must have a Kaggle account in good standing. Accounts created solely for the purpose of this competition or with a history of rule violations may be disqualified at the organizers' discretion. #### 8. WINNERS OBLIGATIONS a. As a condition to being awarded a Prize, a Prize winner must fulfill the following obligations: 1. Deliver to the Competition Sponsor the final model's software code as used to generate the winning Submission and associated documentation. The delivered software code must follow standard documentation guidelines, must be capable of generating the winning Submission, and must contain a description of resources required to build and/or run the executable code successfully. Delivered software code must include training code, inference code, and a description of the required computational environment (hardware specifications, software versions, random seeds). To the extent that the final model's software code includes generally commercially available software that is not owned by you, but that can be procured by the Competition Sponsor without undue expense, then instead of delivering the code for that software to the Competition Sponsor, you must identify that software, method for procuring it, and any parameters or other information necessary to replicate the winning Submission. Individual Participants and Teams who create a Submission using an AMLT may win a Prize. However, the potential winner's Submission must still meet the requirements of these Rules, including but not limited to Section 2.5 (Winners License), Section 2.8 (Winners Obligations), and Section 3.14 (Warranty, Indemnity, and Release). 2. Grant to the Competition Sponsor the license to the winning Submission stated in the Competition Specific Rules above, and represent that you have the unrestricted right to grant that license. 3. Publish a solution write-up in the Kaggle competition discussion forum within fourteen (14) days of the private leaderboard release. The write-up must describe the methodology at a level of detail sufficient for reproducibility, include all external data and tools used, and include a link to a public code repository. 4. Sign and return all Prize acceptance documents as may be required by the Competition Sponsor or Kaggle, including without limitation: eligibility certifications and licenses and releases required under the Rules. Note: as this competition offers no cash prizes, U.S. tax forms are not required. #### 9. GOVERNING LAW a. Unless otherwise provided in the Competition Specific Rules above, all claims arising out of or relating to these Rules will be governed by California law, excluding its conflict of laws rules, and will be litigated exclusively in the Federal or State courts of Santa Clara County, California, USA. The parties consent to personal jurisdiction in those courts. If any provision of these Rules is held to be invalid or unenforceable, all remaining provisions of the Rules will remain in full force and effect. b. Notwithstanding Section 2.9.a above, matters pertaining exclusively to the issuance of community certificates, community recognition, and participation acknowledgment by the Informatiqs organization are governed solely by the internal policies of the Informatiqs community organization and are not subject to judicial arbitration. --- ### 3. GENERAL COMPETITION RULES #### 1. BINDING AGREEMENT To enter the Competition, you must agree to these Rules. If you do not agree to these Rules, do not enter the Competition. When you enter the Competition (including registering on the Competition Website), you are agreeing to these Rules and forming a binding legal agreement with the Competition Sponsor. You also agree to these Rules by entering a Submission into the Competition. #### 2. COMPETITION PERIOD The Competition will run according to the timeline stated on the Competition Website Overview page. All Submissions must be made during the Competition Period. Submissions made after the Final Submission Deadline will not be eligible for consideration. #### 3. ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS Participants must meet all eligibility requirements as stated in Section 1.7 above. A "Participant" is an individual who enters the Competition. Participants may not use multiple Kaggle accounts to enter the Competition. Any violation of this requirement will result in disqualification. #### 4. TEAMS Unless otherwise stated in the Competition-Specific Rules, the maximum Team size is four (4). Participants may form Teams and compete collectively. A Participant may not be a member of more than one Team at any time. A Participant wishing to leave a Team may do so, but may not subsequently join another Team after the Team Merger Deadline. #### 5. SUBMISSIONS Each Submission must comply with all requirements specified on the Evaluation page of the Competition Website. Submissions must be uploaded through the official Competition submission interface. Submissions are scored against the solution file using the evaluation metric described on the Competition Website. The Competition uses a public/private leaderboard split: the public leaderboard is computed on 50% of the test data; the private leaderboard is computed on the remaining 50% and is revealed after the Final Submission Deadline. #### 6. EXTERNAL DATA As specified in Section 2.6 above. #### 7. INTERNET AND ONLINE CONDUCT Participants agree to engage in the Competition and on Kaggle discussion forums in a respectful and professional manner consistent with the Informatiqs community code of conduct and Kaggle's community guidelines. Harassment, discrimination, or abusive conduct directed toward any participant or organizer will result in immediate disqualification. #### 8. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Your Submissions remain your intellectual property. By submitting, you grant the Competition Sponsor a license as specified in Section 2.5 (Winner License) if you are a winner. For non-winning Submissions, no license is granted except as necessary to operate the Competition (i.e., to score submissions and display leaderboard results). #### 9. PRIVACY Kaggle's privacy policy applies to information collected through the Competition Website. By entering the Competition, you consent to the collection and use of your information as described in Kaggle's privacy policy. If the organizer has enabled the option to collect email addresses, you consent to being contacted by the Competition Sponsor for competition-related purposes only. #### 10. WARRANTY, INDEMNITY, AND RELEASE By entering the Competition, you warrant that: a. Your Submission is your own original work, or you have the rights to use and submit it under these Rules. b. Your Submission does not infringe any third party intellectual property rights, privacy rights, or other legal rights. c. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Competition Entities from any claims arising from your Submission or your participation in the Competition. d. You release the Competition Entities from any liability in connection with the Competition, including but not limited to any claim related to scores, rankings, prizes, or the data provided. #### 11. DISQUALIFICATION Competition Entities reserve the right to disqualify any Participant who violates these Rules, engages in data leakage, uses prohibited features, submits plagiarized solutions, or otherwise acts in bad faith. Disqualified Participants forfeit all prizes and recognition. #### 12. MODIFICATIONS Competition Entities reserve the right to modify these Rules at any time, with notice provided via the Competition discussion forum. Continued participation after such notice constitutes acceptance of the modified Rules. #### 13. NO OBLIGATION TO AWARD If, in the Competition Sponsor's sole judgment, an insufficient number of eligible and qualified entries are received, the Competition Sponsor reserves the right to forgo awarding prizes or recognition. #### 14. USE OF NAME AND LIKENESS By participating, you grant the Competition Sponsor the right to use your Kaggle username and any submitted solution write-up for the purposes of announcing winners and promoting the Competition within Informatiqs community channels. #### 15. ENTIRE AGREEMENT These Rules constitute the entire agreement between you and the Competition Sponsor with respect to the Competition and supersede all prior or contemporaneous oral or written agreements, if any. #### 16. SEVERABILITY If any provision of these Rules is found to be unenforceable, that provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect. #### 17. RELATIONSHIP OF PARTIES Nothing in these Rules creates a partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise, or employment relationship between you and the Competition Sponsor. You do not have authority to make or accept any offers or representations on behalf of the Competition Sponsor. #### 18. TERMS For the purposes of these Rules, the following terms have the following meanings: | Term | Definition | |------|------------| | Competition | The AI in Emergency Medicine - Turkiye (AI-EMT) competition hosted on Kaggle | | Competition Data | The datasets provided by the Competition Sponsor: train.csv, test.csv, sample_submission.csv, supplemental_data.csv, hospital_reference.csv, icd10_reference.csv | | Competition Entities | The Competition Sponsor (Informatiqs), Kaggle Inc., and their respective parent companies, subsidiaries, and affiliates | | Competition Period | The period from the Start Date to and including the Final Submission Deadline as stated on the Competition Website | | Competition Sponsor | Informatiqs Community Organization | | Competition Website | https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/ai-emergency-medicine-turkiye | | Final Submission Deadline | The date and time by which all Submissions must be uploaded and Final Submissions must be selected | | Participant | An eligible individual who has registered for the Competition via the Competition Website | | Prize | Non-monetary community recognition certificates as described in Section 1.5 | | Submission | A properly formatted CSV file uploaded to the Competition Website containing predicted probabilities for the two target variables across all test encounters | | Team | One or more Participants who have merged their accounts to compete collectively, subject to the maximum Team size of four (4) | | Team Merger Deadline | Five (5) days before the Final Submission Deadline | | External Data | Any data used in generating a Submission that is not provided as part of the Competition Data | | AMLT | Automated Machine Learning Tool |