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Web intelligence competitions introduction

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Agnieszka ZAJAC @Eurostat • 14 January 2026
Web intelligence

The European Statistics Awards Programme on web intelligence aimed at stimulating innovation in usage of data from the web to produce high quality statistics. 

In the period 2023-2025 four challenges were run:

  • The Web Intelligence Deduplication Challenge – to find methods to identify potential duplicate job postings collected from European websites.
  • The Classification of Occupations for Online Job Advertisements Challenge – to develop automatic methods to categorise job postings according to the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO)
  • Multinational Enterprise (MNE) Groups Data Discovery challenge - to identify web sources with MNE Group data
  • Multinational Enterprise (MNE) Groups Data Extraction challenge - to extract the MNE Group data from the web sources.

The rules of the competitions are archived in the files below. 

The results can be found here: 

Home page of the European Statistics Awards Programme

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