CLEF CheckThat! 2025 Task 2 — German Claim Normalization

A CLEF CheckThat! 2025 Task 2 (german) dataset of 386 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 (german) provides 386 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#German

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Content metrics

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

post lengthμ 1.2K ± 1.2K
min 79max 5K
claim lengthμ 85.065 ± 80.392
min 21max 640
8.8
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
14.2
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
covidnonecoronamenschenkinderimpfungvirusmaldeutschlandimpfstofftragengeimpftmaskenbildukrainevideolassenzeigt0002020pcrtestskinderntestweltimpfungen2021körperregierungvolkfrauenwissenbittefotopandemietelegramthefraumaskegenauelternlautpatientenlebenstudiefälleangeblichartikelgebenmedien
Topic clusters

Topic 0

kinder
der
und
eltern
die
mit
zusamman
das

Topic 1

corona
grüne
der
live
den
jetzt
die
nur

Topic 2

der
das
övp
und
video
foto
menschheit
bild

Topic 3

und
die
der
von
den
ist
dem
nicht

Topic 4

covid
und
die
der
pcr
virus
wir
ich

Topic 5

impfstoff
ich
habe
und
von
der
die
mit

Topic 6

tragen
masken
von
eine
die
der
und
kinder

Topic 7

putin
der
die
über
sie
fünf
bomben
luftangriff

Topic 8

corona
maas
die
moral
quarantäne
ethylenoxid
gezählt
krebs

Topic 9

sebastian
kurz
der
vizekanzler
künftig
grenze
nicht
finanziert

Topic 10

ukraine
pro
russland
der
die
für
russische
frauen

Topic 11

merkel
angela
würde
konnten
kamera
überzeugt
lambrecht
wohl
Top hashtags
#corona9
#propaganda9
#deutschlandkurier6
#eiszeit6
#gebet6
#heißzeit6
#impfung6
#klima6
#medien6
#politik6
#prayforpeace6
#prayforrussia6
#prayforukraine6
#russland6
#ukraine6
#ukrainekonflikt6
#video6
#volksverarschung6
#wahreworte6
#113
Top emoji
💥78
😡75
😂72
🤣66
🤔42
🔺36
🙏30
🤦30
👇27
𝐢21
🇦21
🏻21
👉21
👍21
😢21

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
checkthat-2025-task2-german
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
386
Languages
de
Collected
2025 (2020s)
Tasks
Claim normalization inferred
Region
Europe (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, 558.3 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 — German 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 — German Claim Normalization. 2025, doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-88720-8_68.

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