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Preface
All over the world, future parents are facing the task of finding a suitable given
name for their children. Their choice is usually influenced by a variety of factors,
such as the social context, language, cultural background and especially personal
taste. Although this task is omnipresent, little research has been conducted on
the analysis and application of interrelations among given names from a data
mining perspective.
     Since 1999 the ECML PKDD embraces the tradition of organizing a Dis-
covery Challenge, allowing researchers to develop and test algorithms for novel
and real world datasets. The Discovery Challenge 20131 tackled the task of rec-
ommending given names in the context of the name search engine Nameling. It
consisted of an offline and an online phase. In both phases, participants were
asked to create a name recommendation algorithm that could provide suitable
suggestions of given names to users of Nameling.
     More than 40 participants/teams registered for the challenge, of which 17
handed in predictions of the offline challenge. After the end of the offline phase 6
teams submitted a paper. All papers have been peer reviewed and can be found
in these proceedings. The different approaches to the challenge are presented at
the ECML PKDD workshop on September 27th, 2013, in Prague, Czech Repub-
lic. The online challenge ran until the day before the workshop and four teams
successfully participated with implementations meeting all required criteria. De-
tails of the two challenge tasks, winners of both phases and an overview of the
main findings are presented in the first paper of these proceedings.
     The organizers would like to sincerely thank the challenge’s sponsor Kasseler
Sparkasse for donating the trophy money for the challenge’s awards and the
organizers of ECML PKDD 2013 for their support in the organization of the
challenge and the workshop.

                                                          Kassel, October 2013
                               Stephan Doerfel, Andreas Hotho, Robert Jäschke,
                                           Folke Mitzlaff, and Juergen Mueller




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