**Bengali Text to IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) Transcription** is an area that has seen relatively limited development compared to other languages, despite Bengali being one of the world's most widely spoken native languages. There is a growing need for automated systems that can accurately convert Bengali text into IPA notation due to the vast audience and various applications in linguistics, language learning, and phonetic research. Having this in mind, we welcome participants to participate in **DataVerse**, a part of **ITVerse 2023** organized by **IIT Software Engineers' Community (IITSEC)** as we partner with **Bengali.AI** to advance research in Bengali text to IPA domain.

## How to Participate
Registration to the **DataVerse** challenge is completely free. Anyone can join the competition. However, registration is mandatory to be eligible for the final round.
***Please refer to the [Rules section](https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/dataverse_2023/rules) For team formation guidelines***
Registration link: https://myeventspark.com/events/view/dataverse-challenge-(datathon)

Facebook event link: https://fb.me/e/4tQ5nxYmu

Join Facebook group to connect with fellow participants and the organizing committee: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1410611209517321/

## Competition Schedule
**Initial Round:** Will be held on Kaggle from October 9th to November 1st. Participants are expected to build and train models during this phase. The top 15 registered teams from this round will be invited to join us in the final round.
**Final Round:** Will be held onsite at the Institute of Information Technology, University of Dhaka on 5th November. Only invited teams will get a chance to present their work in front of the judge's panel, where they will have to submit a IEEE/ACM (2 column) paper. Furthermore, their inference notebooks will be evaluated on a hidden dataset.


## Scoring
The scoring weights are divided in the following way - 
**Round 1 Public Standing** : 12%
**Round 1 Private Standing** : 18%
**Hidden Evaluation** : 50%
**Paper & Presentation** : 20%