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Overview of the CLEF--2021 CheckThat! Lab on Detecting Check-Worthy Claims, Previously Fact-Checked Claims, and Fake News
Preslav Nakov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Tamer Elsayed +16
We describe the fourth edition of the CheckThat! Lab, part of the 2021 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF). The lab evaluates technology supporting tasks related to…
Findings of the NLP4IF-2021 Shared Tasks on Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic and Censorship Detection
Shaden Shaar, Firoj Alam, Giovanni Da San Martino +4
We present the results and the main findings of the NLP4IF-2021 shared tasks. Task 1 focused on fighting the COVID-19 infodemic in social media, and it was offered in Arabic, Bulga…
Team Alex at CLEF CheckThat! 2020: Identifying Check-Worthy Tweets With Transformer Models
Alex Nikolov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Ivan Koychev +1
While misinformation and disinformation have been thriving in social media for years, with the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the political and the health misinformation merge…
Overview of CheckThat! 2020: Automatic Identification and Verification of Claims in Social Media
Alberto Barron-Cedeno, Tamer Elsayed, Preslav Nakov +9
We present an overview of the third edition of the CheckThat! Lab at CLEF 2020. The lab featured five tasks in two different languages: English and Arabic. The first four tasks com…
Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic in Social Media: A Holistic Perspective and a Call to Arms
Firoj Alam, Fahim Dalvi, Shaden Shaar +8
With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, people turned to social media to read and to share timely information including statistics, warnings, advice, and inspirational stories.…