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Data will be shared exclusively for the purpose of participating in the shared
task CheckThat!Lab 2026 Task 1 - Source Retrieval for Scientific Web Claims.
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language:
- en
- de
- fr
pretty_name: 'CheckThat! Lab 2026 Task 1: Source Retrieval for Scientific Web Claims'
configs:
- config_name: collection
data_files:
- split: collection
path: collection_data.json
- config_name: de
data_files:
- split: train
path: de_train.json
- split: dev
path: de_dev.json
- config_name: en
data_files:
- split: train
path: en_train.json
- split: dev
path: en_dev.json
- config_name: fr
data_files:
- split: train
path: fr_train.json
- split: dev
path: fr_dev.json
Overview
This repo contains the data for CheckThat!Lab 2026 - Task 1: Source Retrieval for Scientific Web Claims
Task Definition
Source Retrieval for Scientific Web Claims: Given a social media post that contains a scientific claim and an implicit reference to a scientific paper (mentions it without a URL), retrieve the mentioned paper from a pool of candidate papers.
Datasets
The collection set contains information about 10k publications. The query sets (train and dev) comprise English, German, and French social media posts.
- collection_data.json collection set with 10k publications (columns: pubkey, title, abstract, venue / location, authors)
- de_train.json DE training data (columns: index, pubkey, text)
- de_dev.json DE development data (columns: index, pubkey, text)
- en_train.json EN training data (columns: index, pubkey, text)
- en_dev.json EN development data (columns: index, pubkey, text)
- fr_train.json FR training data (columns: index, pubkey, text)
- fr_dev.json FR development data (columns: index, pubkey, text)
Usage
Below is an example for usage:
from datasets import load_dataset
lang = "fr"
split = "train"
data = load_dataset("sschellhammer/CT26_Task1_SourceRetrievalForScientificWebClaims", lang)
split_data = data[split]
labels = np.array(split_data["pubkey"])
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