CLEF CheckThat! 2024 Task 1 — English Check-Worthiness

A CLEF CheckThat! 2024 shared task (english) dataset of 22,501 sentences with binary check-worthiness labels (24.1% check-worthy), collected by CLEF CheckThat! Lab organizers (2024). Each record contains sentence text, binary check-worthiness label (Yes/No), sentence ID, source document. CLEF 2024 CheckThat! Task 1 (english) provides 22,501 sentences from political debates and social media annotated for check-worthiness — whether the claim merits fact-checking. Suitable for check-worthiness detection, fact-checking automation, misinformation research, NLP classification benchmarks, political discourse analysis.

#Check worthiness#Clef checkthat#Political debate

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Content metrics

22,501 records scored

is checkworthy24.1% true
true 24.1%false 75.9%
10.1
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
10.6
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
peoplethinkgoingpresidentdonwantknowcountrysaidyearsgottaxamericatimeworldbelievegovernmentletwaystatesamericanlikerightneedunitedplanyearjobsmoneyworksenatorcarelookthingssurehealthnewgoodgovernorcutbetterlotpercentsecuritybillionhelpadministrationwargreatimportant
Topic clusters

Topic 0

tax
cut
billion
deficit
money
spending
rate
trillion

Topic 1

health
care
medicare
social
insurance
security
drug
senior

Topic 2

iraq
war
troop
military
saddam
israel
hussein
afghanistan

Topic 3

president
vice
bush
united
states
white
house
hillary

Topic 4

senator
congress
senate
mccain
obama
republican
republicans
bill

Topic 5

school
teacher
child
education
college
job
family
work

Topic 6

country
america
american
people
nation
world
think
americans

Topic 7

energy
oil
trade
coal
china
gas
clean
farmer

Topic 8

talk
look
fact
let
think
clear
tell
hear

Topic 9

economy
job
economic
unemployment
million
growth
grow
work

Topic 10

happen
hope
time
tonight
leave
future
fix
problem

Topic 11

gun
crime
law
police
criminal
death
enforce
penalty
Show all 19 topics

Topic 12

election
vote
campaign
judge
court
supreme
constitution
appoint

Topic 13

nuclear
iran
weapon
missile
proliferation
destruction
atomic
threat

Topic 14

soviet
union
russia
russians
putin
soviets
cold
khrushchev

Topic 15

governor
romney
carter
clinton
georgia
state
massachusetts
think

Topic 16

taxis
raise
pay
tax
cut
income
middle
increase

Topic 17

mistake
wrong
apologize
think
bad
thing
sorry
stand

Topic 18

year
ago
half
continue
seven
old
decade
time
Top hashtags
#name5

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
checkthat-2024-task1-english
Authors
Nakov, Preslav; Barrón-Cedeño, Alberto; Da San Martino, Giovanni; CheckThat! Lab Organizers
Year
2024
Source paper
CLEF 2024 CheckThat! Lab: Check-Worthiness Detection
DOI / arXiv
10.1007/978-3-031-56069-9_62
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0)
Records
22,501
Languages
en
Collected
2024 (2020s)
Tasks
Check-worthiness detection (binary; is_checkworthy) inferred

Provenance

Originally published at
https://gitlab.com/checkthat_lab/clef2024-checkthat-lab link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 940.1 KB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

Citations

The CLEF-2024 CheckThat! Lab: Check-Worthiness, Subjectivity, Persuasion, Roles, Authorities, and Adversarial Robustness
Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Firoj Alam, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Tamer Elsayed, Preslav Nakov
Journal Article · European Conference on Information Retrieval · 2024

55
citations
cited
3
influential citations
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BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@inproceedings{checkthat2024,
  title     = {CLEF 2024 {CheckThat!} Lab: Check-Worthiness Detection},
  author    = {Nakov, Preslav and Barr\'on-Cede\~no, Alberto and Da San Martino, Giovanni and others},
  booktitle = {CLEF 2024 Working Notes},
  year      = {2024}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Nakov, P., Barrón-Cedeño, A., Da San Martino, G., & CheckThat! Lab Organizers (2024). CLEF CheckThat! 2024 Task 1 — English Check-Worthiness [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56069-9_62

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Nakov, Preslav, et al. CLEF CheckThat! 2024 Task 1 — English Check-Worthiness. 2024, doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56069-9_62.

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