CLEF CheckThat! 2024 Task 1 — Spanish Check-Worthiness

A CLEF CheckThat! 2024 shared task (spanish) dataset of 19,948 sentences with binary check-worthiness labels (15.7% 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 (spanish) provides 19,948 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#Shared task

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Content metrics

19,948 records scored

is checkworthy15.7% true
true 15.7%false 84.3%
12.6
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
12.6
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
gobiernoespañasánchezaños000paíspartidomillonesmadridpsoeleygraciaspersonasvoxespañolespresidentepolíticaañocongresotrabajosocialeurosciudadanosmujereseuropagentevíamañanacataluñavidalibertadmomentoimportantemundocomunidadderechospopularmedidaspresupuestosjusticiafrenteempleoseguircrisissituaciónpandemiafuturoeducacióncasadodemocracia
Topic clusters

Topic 0

que
eso
por
pero
muy
qué
esto
hay

Topic 1

del
que
para
sector
los
climático
las
cambio

Topic 2

salud
pandemia
que
virus
coronavirus
sanidad
por
los

Topic 3

madrid
comunidad
que
más
valencia
por
los
con

Topic 4

gobierno
que
del
presidente
los
voto
españa
con

Topic 5

sánchez
pedro
que
los
iglesias
con
gobierno
del

Topic 6

ley
tribunal
que
judicial
derechos
constitución
los
derecho

Topic 7

debate
política
que
político
partido
los
políticos
una

Topic 8

psoe
socialista
del
partido
que
con
los
para

Topic 9

violencia
víctimas
víctima
machista
las
terrorismo
contra
asesinato

Topic 10

vox
que
los
con
partido
por
una
del

Topic 11

mujere
feminista
las
mujer
mujeres
feminismo
que
una
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Topic 12

impuestos
fiscal
impuesto
economía
que
económica
los
las

Topic 13

niños
padre
hijos
parental
pin
los
educación
derecho

Topic 14

directo
partir
entrevista
síguelo
las
interviene
aniversario
rede

Topic 15

euros
millone
euro
los
para
fondo
que
del

Topic 16

ciudadanos
semana
que
ciudadano
los
reunión
con
las

Topic 17

europea
europa
unión
europeo
españa
que
los
comisión
Top hashtags
#pge202294
#avanzamos_79
#soloquedavox62
#actualidadcs56
#covid1952
#cmin45
#pinparental37
#españa35
#niunamenos34
#españasiempre31
#10n28
#portodoloquenosune27
#40congresopsoe25
#violenciadegénero25
#enmarchatodosunidos23
#ávila23
#violenciamachista22
#6añosgraciasati21
#españaavanza_21
#fitur202021
Top emoji
👉518
👇430
🇪352
🏻300
🇸274
🌹224
📺213
🔴204
💪163
👏155
🗣140
🏼131
🏛110
📡105
🍊104

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
checkthat-2024-task1-spanish
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
19,948
Languages
es
Collected
2024 (2020s)
Tasks
Check-worthiness detection (binary; is_checkworthy) inferred
Region
Europe, Latin America (inferred: from the language of the data)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://gitlab.com/checkthat_lab/clef2024-checkthat-lab link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 2.5 MB 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
5% of all citations

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How to cite

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 — Spanish 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 — Spanish Check-Worthiness. 2024, doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56069-9_62.

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