CLEF CheckThat! 2025 Task 2 — Arabic-Msa Claim Normalization

A CLEF CheckThat! 2025 Task 2 (arabic-msa) dataset of 540 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 (arabic-msa) provides 540 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#Modern standard arabic#Shared task

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Content metrics

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

post lengthμ 1.2K ± 1.3K
min 94max 5K
claim lengthμ 64.498 ± 29.566
min 18max 519
12.6
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
14.9
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
danyanginidenganuntukdaritidakandaituorangmerekadalamkitaadanoneadalahpadaakanairnegarabisasemuavirussaatharikarenaolehislamallahmakandiabihuntelahlebihduniatahunsayavideocovidataukankerchinabuahjugaindonesiaanakhanyaseorangsetelahpanas
Topic clusters

Topic 0

foto
anak
dalam
perancis
yang
lembu
babi
ini

Topic 1

rusia
rudal
gedung
orang
terakhir
ukraine
ratu
pertahanan

Topic 2

video
fpi
semarang
sriwijaya
gunung
pesawat
diusir
tembak

Topic 3

juta
jokowi
mahasiswa
negara
indonesia
kilang
bintang
pahlawan

Topic 4

muslim
india
negara
dan
sekolah
yang
tidak
kanada

Topic 5

air
kanker
lemon
panas
sel
anda
jangan
dan

Topic 6

masjid
gereja
sholat
adzan
waktu
setiap
ini
ibadah

Topic 7

serangan
korban
israel
adanya
lebanon
ledakan
afghanistan
akibat

Topic 8

papua
bunga
wamena
tewa
tadi
nya
sekali
melihat

Topic 9

virus
nafas
saya
dah
corona
dan
tarik
cukup

Topic 10

turki
pemimpin
islam
apakah
presiden
allah
macron
yang

Topic 11

amerika
corona
gagak
islam
usa
virus
penipuan
hussein
Show all 14 topics

Topic 12

tiongkok
sangat
adalah
waktu
tetapi
yang
bumi
china

Topic 13

ibunya
mayat
covid
menjerit
sekali
rusia
langit
memanggil
Top hashtags
#shameonyouindia15
#indonesia12
#staysafe12
#viral12
#india9
#informasi9
#islamic9
#jakarta9
#muslimahindia9
#muslimindia9
#nasional9
#prayforturkey9
#rusia9
#sayabersamajokowi9
#tolaklaranganhijabdiindia9
#aceh6
#allahuakbar6
#amerika6
#batam6
#beritaterkini6
Top emoji
😭183
👍123
🏼111
🙏87
👇78
🤣54
🤲51
😂45
😱45
🏻39
😊33
😥33
🏽30
👆30
👹30

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
checkthat-2025-task2-arabic-msa
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
540
Languages
ar
Collected
2025 (2020s)
Tasks
Claim normalization inferred
Region
Middle East & North Africa (inferred: from the language of the data)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://gitlab.com/checkthat_lab/clef2025-checkthat-lab link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 790.3 KB 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 — Arabic-Msa 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 — Arabic-Msa Claim Normalization. 2025, doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-88720-8_68.

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