CLEF CheckThat! 2025 Task 2 — English Claim Normalization

A CLEF CheckThat! 2025 Task 2 (english) dataset of 11,374 social media post and normalized claim pairs, collected by CLEF CheckThat! Lab organizers (2025). Each record contains social media post text containing a factual claim, normalized canonical claim statement. CLEF 2025 CheckThat! Task 2 (english) provides 11,374 pairs of social media posts and their normalized factual claims, enabling claim normalization and canonicalization research. Suitable for claim normalization, fact-checking automation, NLP text generation, multilingual claim extraction, social media fact verification.

#Claim normalization#Clef checkthat#Shared task

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Content metrics

11,374 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

post lengthμ 511.271 ± 823.93
min 4max 5K
claim lengthμ 87.59 ± 55.113
min 4max 1K
10.6
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
11.9
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
peoplecovidnewvaccinelikepresidentworldvirustimegovernmentvideodonsaidknowdaywatertrumpshows000yearsyearhealthindianewscoronavirusbidenpoliceusecountrychildrenstatefoundtoday2020bodygoinglifedayshelpchinamanneedcancerpublicsayswayrightpostletfamily
Topic clusters

Topic 0

vaccine
covid
death
test
people
pfizer
vaccination
flu

Topic 1

canada
tax
pay
year
billion
government
cost
trudeau

Topic 2

cancer
water
drink
eat
brain
help
day
blood

Topic 3

nigeria
president
africa
state
nigerian
slave
buhari
irish

Topic 4

virus
coronavirus
pneumonia
patient
day
hospital
water
lung

Topic 5

ballot
vote
election
mail
voting
voter
fraud
trump

Topic 6

gandhi
rahul
bjp
modi
gujarat
congress
crore
minister

Topic 7

ukraine
russian
ukrainian
russia
putin
war
soldier
attack

Topic 8

moon
split
miracle
muhammad
prophet
earth
allah
volcano

Topic 9

hindu
muslim
muslims
girl
police
woman
hindus
temple

Topic 10

australia
phase
reopen
australian
cash
restriction
australians
social

Topic 11

ang
mga
duterte
region
entire
philippines
kayo
president
Show all 19 topics

Topic 12

indian
kashmir
army
india
crash
pakistan
plane
helicopter

Topic 13

battery
climate
carbon
pound
change
atmosphere
warming
cow

Topic 14

trump
president
pelosi
nancy
donald
military
america
election

Topic 15

lady
lord
god
life
prayer
man
pray
tell

Topic 16

farmer
zindabad
slogan
protest
raise
pakistan
khalistan
rally

Topic 17

biden
joe
president
pledge
allegiance
trump
vote
texas

Topic 18

mask
wear
oxygen
face
cause
use
people
breathe
Top hashtags
#covid1989
#ukraine69
#coronavirus67
#usa47
#à41
#breaking36
#news36
#india35
#australia34
#maga34
#russia34
#truth33
#turkey32
#repost31
#trump202031
#china30
#they30
#earthquake28
#freedom28
#pakistan28
Top emoji
🙏663
👇624
👉451
😭408
🔻382
😂330
🇺308
🇸261
🏻257
🤣255
🇳244
🤔225
🇮210
💪206
🏼186

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
checkthat-2025-task2-english
Authors
Nakov, Preslav; Barrón-Cedeño, Alberto; Da San Martino, Giovanni; CheckThat! Lab Organizers
Year
2025
Source paper
CLEF 2025 CheckThat! Lab Task 2: Claim Normalization
DOI / arXiv
10.1007/978-3-031-88720-8_68
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0)
Records
11,374
Languages
en
Collected
2025 (2020s)
Tasks
Claim normalization inferred

Provenance

Originally published at
https://gitlab.com/checkthat_lab/clef2025-checkthat-lab link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 7.6 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

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{checkthat2025task2,
  title     = {CLEF 2025 {CheckThat!} Lab Task 2: Claim Normalization},
  author    = {Nakov, Preslav and others},
  booktitle = {CLEF 2025 Working Notes},
  year      = {2025}
}

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 (2025). CLEF CheckThat! 2025 Task 2 — English Claim Normalization [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-88720-8_68

MLA

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

Nakov, Preslav, et al. CLEF CheckThat! 2025 Task 2 — English Claim Normalization. 2025, doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-88720-8_68.

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