Rosneft spent the first IT Marathon this year for students studying on IT specialties. The event has passed in the online format and has become a record scale – students from 20 cities of Russia took part in Khakaton. About this “Lente.ru” reported in the press service “Rosneft”.
During the hacaton, more than 270 students from 33 universities have developed a program to convert standard project documentation into a computer-readable file format. The task refers to the field of processing of a natural language. Processing, NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING, NLP – an extensive area of IT, which includes such disciplines such as recognition, processing and generation of speech, selection of named entities, categorizing documents, as well as translation of text to other languages.
The first place was taken by the “0” team from Kazan. The second is the team “Chip and Dale” from Volgograd. And in third place was the Krasnoyarsk team “The A-Team”. The development of winners of Hakaton is planned to be used to digitize the company’s regulatory documents.
The next IT competition “Rosneft” will be held in early November in Ufa for robotics programmers. At the end of November, the final event will be held in Moscow – Rosneft Computer Vision Challenge – for IT professionals without age limitations.
Rosneft is interested in finding and engaging in their ranks of purposeful, initiative, energetic and creative people who know how to work in a team, ready to improve professional knowledge and experience, noted in the press service of the company. Annually “Rosneft” organizes and takes part in vocational guidance events for youth.
The main organizer of the IT Marathon was the Scientific Institute RN-Bashnefinfty, which is the center for developing a line of high-tech software “Rosneft”. This year, co-organizers were corporate scientific institutions in Moscow, Samara, Tyumen, Tomsk, Krasnoyarsk, Volgograd, Krasnodar. This made it possible to increase the geographical coverage of student hacaton compared to last year.
Details about the Marathon of IT Competitions 2021 on a special page of the event.