To advance the field of implicit temporal information retrieval from a text, this competition aims to challenge participants to develop automatic methods to identify the literary epochs of a given text, which is considered here as an implicit temporal context of a book. 

The competition is held as a part of the 1st International Workshop on Implicit Author Characterization from Texts for Search and Retrieval [IACT’23](https://en.sce.ac.il/news/iact23), held on July 27, 2023, in conjunction with the 46th International ACM [SIGIR](https://sigir.org/sigir2023/)  Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.


The task on Automatic Classification of Literary Epochs (CoLiE) aims at automatic identification of the literary epoch of a given text from its writing style: (1) Romanticism (1798-1837), (2) Victorian Literature (1837-1901), (3) Modernism (1900-1945), (4) Postmodernism (1945-2000), and (5) our days (from 2000).

We believe this shared task will help to advance the field of information retrieval and natural language processing and will also contribute to a deeper understanding of literary history.

This competition is open to anyone with a passion for information retrieval, machine learning, and natural language processing. Whether you are a seasoned expert or a newcomer to the field, we welcome you to participate and extend the boundaries of automated text analysis!

#### To join the competition click the "Join Competition" button at the top right corner. **In addition, please fill in the**  [ registration form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdWI0lH-mnJ2Cs8zi0UsyFcsZxjxSQ1fEnXSZnXFfI_MIDlxw/viewform?usp=sf_link).
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