Please read the task description at the [ALTA 2018 shared task website](http://alta.asn.au/events/sharedtask2018/index.html). Feel free to use the code of the Naive Bayes baseline to get started! The code is available from the "Kernels" tab. To register please send an email to Diego Molla (shared.task@alta.asn.au) with the following information: * Name of your team; * Name and current studies, including the current year, degree name, and university (e.g. "third year of the Bachelor of IT at Macquarie University") of each team member. **Submission deadline: 22 October 2018** Submissions are now closed but you can still submit late submissions and compare your results with those of the systems that participated. **If you use the data from this shared task, please cite:** Diego Molla, Dilesha Seneviratne. Overview of the 2018 ALTA Shared Task: Classifying Patent Applications. *Proceedings ALTA 2018*, Dunedin. https://aclweb.org/anthology/papers/U/U18/U18-1011/