TY - GEN
T1 - The CLEF-2022 CheckThat! Lab on Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic and Fake News Detection
AU - Nakov, Preslav
AU - Barrón-Cedeño, Alberto
AU - Da San Martino, Giovanni
AU - Alam, Firoj
AU - Struß, Julia Maria
AU - Mandl, Thomas
AU - Míguez, Rubén
AU - Caselli, Tommaso
AU - Kutlu, Mucahid
AU - Zaghouani, Wajdi
AU - Li, Chengkai
AU - Shaar, Shaden
AU - Shahi, Gautam Kishore
AU - Mubarak, Hamdy
AU - Nikolov, Alex
AU - Babulkov, Nikolay
AU - Kartal, Yavuz Selim
AU - Beltrán, Javier
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is part of the Tanbih mega-project, developed at the Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, which aims to limit the impact of “fake news”, propaganda, and media bias, thus promoting media literacy and critical thinking. The Arabic annotation effort was partially made possible by NPRP grant NPRP13S-0206-200281 from the Qatar National Research Fund (a member of Qatar Foundation).
Funding Information:
Acknowledgments. This research is part of the Tanbih mega-project, developed at the Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, which aims to limit the impact of “fake news”, propaganda, and media bias, thus promoting media literacy and critical thinking. The Arabic annotation effort was partially made possible by NPRP grant NPRP13S-0206-200281 from the Qatar National Research Fund (a member of Qatar Foundation).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The fifth edition of the CheckThat! Lab is held as part of the 2022 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF). The lab evaluates technology supporting various factuality tasks in seven languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Dutch, English, German, Spanish, and Turkish. Task 1 focuses on disinformation related to the ongoing COVID-19 infodemic and politics, and asks to predict whether a tweet is worth fact-checking, contains a verifiable factual claim, is harmful to the society, or is of interest to policy makers and why. Task 2 asks to retrieve claims that have been previously fact-checked and that could be useful to verify the claim in a tweet. Task 3 is to predict the veracity of a news article. Tasks 1 and 3 are classification problems, while Task 2 is a ranking one.
AB - The fifth edition of the CheckThat! Lab is held as part of the 2022 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF). The lab evaluates technology supporting various factuality tasks in seven languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Dutch, English, German, Spanish, and Turkish. Task 1 focuses on disinformation related to the ongoing COVID-19 infodemic and politics, and asks to predict whether a tweet is worth fact-checking, contains a verifiable factual claim, is harmful to the society, or is of interest to policy makers and why. Task 2 asks to retrieve claims that have been previously fact-checked and that could be useful to verify the claim in a tweet. Task 3 is to predict the veracity of a news article. Tasks 1 and 3 are classification problems, while Task 2 is a ranking one.
KW - Check-worthiness
KW - COVID-19
KW - Disinformation
KW - Fact-checking
KW - Factuality
KW - Fake news
KW - Misinformation
KW - Verified claim retrieval
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85128772621&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-99739-7_52
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-99739-7_52
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85128772621
SN - 9783030997380
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 416
EP - 428
BT - Advances in Information Retrieval - 44th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2022, Proceedings
A2 - Hagen, Matthias
A2 - Verberne, Suzan
A2 - Macdonald, Craig
A2 - Seifert, Christin
A2 - Balog, Krisztian
A2 - Nørvåg, Kjetil
A2 - Setty, Vinay
PB - Springer
T2 - 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2022
Y2 - 10 April 2022 through 14 April 2022
ER -