We describe the third edition of the CheckThat! Lab, which is part of the
2020 Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). CheckThat! proposes four
complementary tasks and a related task from previous lab editions, offered in
English, Arabic, and Spanish. Task 1 asks to predict which tweets in a Twitter
stream are worth fact-checking. Task 2 asks to determine whether a claim posted
in a tweet can be verified using a set of previously fact-checked claims. Task
3 asks to retrieve text snippets from a given set of Web pages that would be
useful for verifying a target tweet's claim. Task 4 asks to predict the
veracity of a target tweet's claim using a set of Web pages and potentially
useful snippets in them. Finally, the lab offers a fifth task that asks to
predict the check-worthiness of the claims made in English political debates
and speeches. CheckThat! features a full evaluation framework. The evaluation
is carried out using mean average precision or precision at rank k for ranking
tasks, and F1 for classification tasks.Comment: Computational journalism, Check-worthiness, Fact-checking, Veracity,
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