CLEF CheckThat! 2023 Task 1 — Spanish Check-Worthiness

The Spanish data of Subtask 1B (check-worthiness, text only) of Task 1 of the CLEF 2023 CheckThat! Lab: 14,990 Spanish tweets, each labelled by whether it contains a claim worth fact-checking. The labels are Yes (3,217) and No (11,773). The data come in three files: train 7,490 (2,208 Yes, 5,282 No), dev 2,500 (305 Yes, 2,195 No), dev-test 5,000 (704 Yes, 4,296 No). Each row has a tweet ID, the tweet's URL, the tweet text and the label. The upstream zip also holds the tweet objects of 14,064 tweets, kept in a separate table.

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11.8
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
12.1
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
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Topic 7

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del

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Record

Catalog key
checkthat-2023-task1-spanish
Authors
Nakov, Preslav; Barrón-Cedeño, Alberto; Da San Martino, Giovanni; CheckThat! Lab Organizers
Year
2023
Source paper
CLEF 2023 CheckThat! Lab: Check-Worthiness Detection
DOI / arXiv
10.1007/978-3-031-28241-6_59
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0)
Records
14,990
Languages
es
Collected
2023 (2020s)
Tasks
Check-worthiness detection inferred
Region
Europe, Latin America (inferred: from the language of the data)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://gitlab.com/checkthat_lab/clef2023-checkthat-lab link checked
Original files as received
The source files, unconverted, kept for reference: mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 5.5 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json. For use, start with the data package below.
Data package
Version 1.0.0 of this dataset as an ECHO Data Package: posts (14,990 rows), annotations (14,990 rows), x_tweet_objects (14,064 rows).
Structure
Labelled data, Text

Citations

The CLEF-2023 CheckThat! Lab: Checkworthiness, Subjectivity, Political Bias, Factuality, and Authority
Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Firoj Alam, Tommaso Caselli, Giovanni Da San Martino, Tamer Elsayed
Journal Article · European Conference on Information Retrieval · 2023

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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{checkthat2023,
  title     = {CLEF 2023 {CheckThat!} Lab: Check-Worthiness Detection},
  author    = {Nakov, Preslav and Barr\'on-Cede\~no, Alberto and Da San Martino, Giovanni and others},
  booktitle = {CLEF 2023 Working Notes},
  year      = {2023}
}

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 (2023). CLEF CheckThat! 2023 Task 1 — Spanish Check-Worthiness [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28241-6_59

MLA

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

Nakov, Preslav, et al. CLEF CheckThat! 2023 Task 1 — Spanish Check-Worthiness. 2023, doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28241-6_59.

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