The CLEF-2024 CheckThat! Lab: Check-Worthiness, Subjectivity, Persuasion, Roles, Authorities, and Adversarial Robustness

  • Alberto Barron-Cedeno
  • , Firoj Alam
  • , Tanmoy Chakraborty
  • , Tamer Elsayed
  • , Preslav Nakov
  • , Piotr Przybyla
  • , Julia Maria Struss
  • , Fatima Haouari
  • , Maram Hasanain
  • , Federico Ruggeri
  • , Xingyi Song
  • , Reem Suwaileh

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Abstract

The first five editions of the CheckThat! lab focused on the main tasks of the information verification pipeline: check-worthiness, evidence retrieval and pairing, and verification. Since the 2023 edition, it has been focusing on new problems that can support the research and decision making during the verification process. In this new edition, we focus on new problems and -for the first time- we propose six tasks in fifteen languages (Arabic, Bulgarian, English, Dutch, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovene, Spanish, and code-mixed Hindi-English): Task 1 estimation of check-worthiness (the only task that has been present in all CheckThat! editions), Task 2 identification of subjectivity (a follow up of CheckThat! 2023 edition), Task 3 identification of persuasion (a follow up of SemEval 2023), Task 4 detection of hero, villain, and victim from memes (a follow up of CONSTRAINT 2022), Task 5 Rumor Verification using Evidence from Authorities (a first), and Task 6 robustness of credibility assessment with adversarial examples (a first). These tasks represent challenging classification and retrieval problems at the document and at the span level, including multilingual and multimodal settings.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances In Information Retrieval, Ecir 2024, Pt V
EditorsN Goharian, N Tonellotto, Y He, A Lipani, G McDonald, C Macdonald, I Ounis
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages449-458
Number of pages10
Volume14612
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-031-56069-9
ISBN (Print)978-3-031-56068-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 23 Mar 2024
Event46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) - Glasgow
Duration: 24 Mar 202428 Mar 2024

Publication series

NameLecture Notes In Computer Science

Conference

Conference46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR)
CityGlasgow
Period24/03/2428/03/24

Keywords

  • Authority finding
  • Check-worthiness
  • Disinformation
  • Fact-checking
  • Factuality
  • Model robustness
  • Political bias
  • Subjectivity

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