BEIJING, Sept. 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Gridsum Holding Inc. ("Gridsum" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: GSUM), a leading provider of cloud-based big-data analytics and artificial intelligence ("AI") solutions in China, announced today that it has won first place in the 2018 Chinese AI and Law Challenge ("CAIL2018").
CAIL2018 was both initiated and led by the Information Centre of the Supreme People's Court and the Central Youth Development Department of the Communist Youth League of China, and co-organized by various organizations, including the China Justice Big Data Institute, Chinese Information Processing Society of China, CETC Youth League committee, Tsinghua University, Peking University, and Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
CAIL2018 facilitates academic exchange and promotes the use of natural language processing and AI in the legal sector. There were more than 600 teams from both China and overseas participating in CAIL2018. Participants included engineers from top academic institutions including Tsinghua University and Peking University and internationally renowned companies such as Google and Microsoft. At CAIL2018, judges assessed contestants on their analysis of criminal case datasets and their application of AI across three categories including crime prediction, legislative recommendation, and judgement outcomes prediction.
Mr. Guosheng Qi, Chief Executive Officer of Gridsum, commented, "We are proud that our team, competing under the name 'Nevermore', ranked top among their peers in the crime prediction and legislative recommendation categories, resulting in winning first place at the event. This further proves Gridsum's competitive advantages in the legal AI sector. We will continue to leverage our AI and natural language processing capabilities to support and develop China's smart court initiatives."
About Gridsum
Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ: GSUM) is a leading provider of cloud-based big-data analytics and AI solutions for multinational and domestic enterprises and government agencies in China. Gridsum's core technology, the Gridsum Big Data Platform, is built on a distributed computing framework and performs real-time multi-dimensional correlation analysis of both structured and unstructured data. This enables Gridsum's customers to identify complex relationships within their data and gain new insights that help them make better business decisions. The Company is named "Gridsum" to symbolize the combination of distributed computing (Grid) and analytics (sum). As a digital intelligence pioneer, the Company's mission is to help enterprises and government organizations in China use data in new and powerful ways to make better informed decisions and be more productive.
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