# Rules

## Registration
- 📝 Registration form link : https://forms.gle/LqrFb8ktZH11RWaf7 
- 📆 Deadline for registration: **April 24, 2024**

## Team Requirements
- A team must consist of at most **3 members.**
- The members of a team can be from different universities. Cross university team is allowed.
- Open for both undergraduate and graduate students as well as working professionals
- For overseas participants, **at least 1 person** should be present in Bangladesh during the final presentation.

## Rules for the Competition
- Registration is mandatory to participate in all the phases of the contest.
- **Only one account** per participant in Kaggle will be allowed.
- Participants are allowed to use external data, but the data has to be disclosed publicly before the final round.
- The use of the internet is allowed for research and reference, but API calls are not permitted.
- All teams must submit working Kaggle notebooks for training and inference (and the models too), including appropriate instructions and documentation for reproducibility. The inference notebook must run on Kaggle Notebooks.
- Teams are required to make all scripts, data, and reports publicly available.
- No private code sharing outside teams.

## Phases
- The teams will be assessed on the leaderboard score from Phase 1 and top 10 teams from Phase 1 private leaderboard will be considered for Phase 2. 
- The phase 2 evaluation will be an in-person event where the teams will be judged based on their hidden evaluation score, presentation, report, and code reproducibility and novelty. 
- **Scoring rubric**:
Phase 1 leaderboard (Public): 10%
Phase 1 leaderboard (Private): 20%
Phase 2 hidden leaderboard: 40%
Paper Report (PDF): 10%
Presentation: 10%
Insights and findings: 10%

## Evaluation
The evaluation metric for the competition is Word Error Rate (WER). The dialect weights are given below:
domain_weights = {
        'Barishal': 0.125,
        'Chittagong': 0.083,
        'Habiganj': 0.125,
        'Kishoreganj': 0.083,
        'Narail': 0.083, 
        'Narsingdi': 0.083,
        'Rangpur': 0.083,
        'Sylhet': 0.125,
        'Sandwip': 0.125,
        'Tangail': 0.083,
    }


## General Rules
- The **IUTCS Datathon Organizing Committee** retains the authority to cancel or reschedule the event under any circumstances. The organizers serve the right to disqualify any team.
- The selection of winners will be made solely at the discretion of the **IUTCS Datathon Organizing Committee**. All participants are required to adhere to the terms and conditions. Decisions made by the **IUTCS Datathon Organizing Committee** in this matter will be conclusive, and no requests for clarification or appeals will be considered.
- The participants must only use open source code licensed under an Open Source Initiative-approved license (see www.opensource.org) that in no event limits commercial use of such code or model containing or depending on such code.

### Winner license
- The winners will grant the competition hosts and sponsors the following license:
    - 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) 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 the 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 sentence for that software. You must also make your solution public.
- The Competition hosts and sponsors and its affiliates may use your name and likeness for advertising and promotional purposes without additional compensation unless prohibited by law.
- You warrant that your submission is your own original work and, as such, you are the sole and exclusive owner and rights holder of the submission, and you have the right to make the submission and grant all required licenses. To the maximum extent permitted by law, you indemnify and agree to keep indemnified Competition Entities at all times from and against any liability, claims, demands, losses, damages, costs, and expenses resulting from any of your acts, defaults or omissions and/or a breach of any warranty set forth herein.