Datasets:
Clarification on Whether Team Members Must Match Paper Authorship
Dear Organizers,
I hope you are doing well.
I am currently applying for access to the challenge dataset on Hugging Face and noticed the requirement to fill in the "Team Members" field. I would like to seek clarification regarding its relationship to future publications.
Specifically, I would like to confirm whether the list of team members provided at this stage must strictly match the authors of any subsequent papers based on this challenge. In other words, are there any requirements or constraints that the paper authors must be consistent with the registered team members, or can the authorship be determined independently at the time of publication?
I would greatly appreciate your clarification to ensure compliance with the challenge policies.
Thank you for your time and support.
Thank you for your interest in the challenge.
The “Team Members” field is collected mainly for registration and statistical purposes. It also helps us avoid cases where the same person joins multiple teams or registers multiple accounts.
In principle, we encourage the team member list provided at the registration stage to remain as consistent as possible with the contributors to any subsequent paper. However, it does not need to be exactly the same. If there are reasonable changes later, that is acceptable, and the final authorship can be determined at the time of publication.
We hope this clarifies the policy. Please feel free to contact us if you have any further questions.