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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

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:

  1. Classicism (1660-1798)
  2. Romanticism (1798-1837)
  3. Victorian Literature (1837-1901)
  4. Modernism (1900-1945)
  5. Postmodernism (1945-2000)
  6. Contemporary (from 2000)

Sub-task 1.2: Classification of texts into epoch subdivisions:

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

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

How to Participate

  1. Visit our website: https://colie.pro/
  2. Familiarize yourself with the tasks, rules, datasets, and evaluation metrics.
  3. Submit your results through the Kaggle platform.

Contact

For inquiries, contact the organizers at:
colie2025.competition@gmail.com

Organizers