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Call for Participation: ICDAR 2025 Competition on Automatic Classification of Literary Epochs (CoLiE)
We are pleased to announce the ICDAR 2025 Competition on Automatic Classification of Literary Epochs (CoLiE), which aims to push the boundaries of temporal text analysis by challenging participants to develop state-of-the-art methods for dating literary texts. The competition focuses on leveraging natural language processing (NLP) and information retrieval (IR) techniques to predict the time periods in which texts were written.
Overview
The CoLiE competition offers two main tasks to address temporal classification and the understanding of historical texts:
Task 1: Literary Epochs Classification
Competition Page: Task 1 https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/icdar-2025-ColiE_Task1 This task focuses on classifying texts based on literary epochs and their subdivisions:
Sub-task 1.1: Classification of texts into six major literary epochs:
Classicism (1660-1798) Romanticism (1798-1837) Victorian Literature (1837-1901) Modernism (1900-1945) Postmodernism (1945-2000) Contemporary (from 2000) Sub-task 1.2: Classification of texts into epoch subdivisions:
Early: First quarter of the epoch Middle: Middle half of the epoch Late: Final quarter of the epoch Note: Epoch lengths vary, with Classicism, Romanticism, Victorian Literature, Modernism, and Postmodernism divided into three periods, while Contemporary has only two periods.
Task 2: ChronoText Classification
Competition Page: Task 2 https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/icdar-2025-ColiE_Task2 This task addresses temporal granularity:
Sub-task 2.1: Identifying the century of origin for a given text.
Sub-task 2.2: Pinpointing the specific decade within that century when the text was composed.
Participation
We invite researchers, practitioners, and enthusiasts from the IR and NLP communities to participate in this exciting competition.
Important Dates
December 17, 2024: Competition website live. Training and validation sets with labels available. April 1, 2025: Test dataset available. April 8, 2025: Competition deadline. May 1, 2025: Submission of competition reports. May 16, 2025: Camera-ready paper submission. June 30, 2025: Winners announced. September 17-21, 2025: Results presented at the ICDAR conference. How to Participate
Visit our website: https://colie.pro/ Familiarize yourself with the tasks, rules, datasets, and evaluation metrics. Submit your results through the Kaggle platform. Contact
For inquiries, contact the organizers at: colie2025.competition@gmail.com mailto:colie2025.competition@gmail.com Organizers
Marina Litvak, SCE (marinal@ac.sce.ac.il mailto:marinal@ac.sce.ac.il) Irina Rabaev, SCE (irinar@ac.sce.ac.il mailto:irinar@ac.sce.ac.il) Ricardo Campos, University of Beira Interior, INESC TEC (ricardo.campos@ubi.pt mailto:ricardo.campos@ubi.pt) Alípio Jorge, University of Porto, INESC TEC (amjorge@fc.up.pt mailto:amjorge@fc.up.pt) Adam Jatowt, University of Innsbruck (adam.jatowt@uibk.ac.at mailto:adam.jatowt@uibk.ac.at) Roza Bass, SCE (rozzaba@ac.sce.ac.il mailto:rozzaba@ac.sce.ac.il) Hugo Sousa, University of Porto, INESC TEC (hugo.sousa@fc.up.pt mailto:hugo.sousa@fc.up.pt)