CLEF CheckThat! 2023 Subjectivity — Arabic
A CLEF CheckThat! 2023 subjectivity task (arabic) dataset of 1,185 sentences with subjectivity labels (23.6% subjective), collected by CLEF CheckThat! Lab organizers (2023). Each record contains sentence text, binary subjectivity label (SUBJ/OBJ), sentence ID, conflict resolution flag. CLEF 2023 CheckThat! subjectivity (arabic) provides 1,185 news sentences annotated for subjectivity — whether the sentence expresses opinions (SUBJ) or facts (OBJ). Suitable for subjectivity detection, opinion mining, NLP classification, news objectivity analysis, multilingual text classification.
Cite this dataset at
checkthat-2023-task2-arabic.echo.directory
Analytics
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Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
checkthat-2023-task2-arabic- Authors
- Nakov, Preslav; Barrón-Cedeño, Alberto; Da San Martino, Giovanni; CheckThat! Lab Organizers
- Year
- 2023
- Source paper
- CLEF 2023 CheckThat! Lab: Subjectivity 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
- 1,185
- Languages
- ar
- Collected
- 2023 (2020s)
- Tasks
- Subjectivity classification (binary;
is_subjective) inferred - Region
- Middle East & North Africa (inferred: from the language of the data)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://gitlab.com/checkthat_lab/clef2023-checkthat-lab link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 371.6 KB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
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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- Multimodal Automated Fact-Checking: A Survey
Mubashara Akhtar, M. Schlichtkrull et al. · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2023 · cited 84× - LAraBench: Benchmarking Arabic AI with Large Language Models
Ahmed Abdelali, Hamdy Mubarak et al. · Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2023 · cited 44× - Human-centered NLP Fact-checking: Co-Designing with Fact-checkers using Matchmaking for AI
Houjiang Liu, Anubrata Das et al. · Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact. · 2023 · cited 38× - Overview of the CLEF-2023 CheckThat! Lab Task 1 on Check-Worthiness in Multimodal and Multigenre Content
Firoj Alam, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño et al. · Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum · 2023 · cited 38× - A Corpus for Sentence-Level Subjectivity Detection on English News Articles
Francesco Antici, F. Ruggeri et al. · International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation · 2023 · cited 28×
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Mohamed A. Mostafa, Ahmad S. Almogren et al. · ACM Computing Surveys · 2024 · cited 23× - Can LLMs Automate Fact-Checking Article Writing?
Dhruv Sahnan, David P. A. Corney et al. · Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2025 · cited 17× - Overview of the CLEF-2024 CheckThat! Lab Task 1 on Check-Worthiness Estimation of Multigenre Content
Maram Hasanain, Reem Suwaileh et al. · Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum · 2024 · cited 17× - Lost in Translation, Found in Spans: Identifying Claims in Multilingual Social Media
Shubham Mittal, Megha Sundriyal et al. · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2023 · cited 14× - Overview of the CLEF-2023 CheckThat! Lab Task 3 on Political Bias of News Articles and News Media
Giovanni Da San Martino, Firoj Alam et al. · Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum · 2023 · cited 12×
Citation data from Semantic Scholar, retrieved 2026-10-19.
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{checkthat2023subj,
title = {CLEF 2023 {CheckThat!} Lab: Subjectivity Detection},
author = {Nakov, Preslav 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 Subjectivity — Arabic [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 Subjectivity — Arabic. 2023, doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28241-6_59.