Overview of the CLEF-2023 CheckThat! Lab Task 3 on Political Bias of News Articles and News Media

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Title

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Abstract

We provide an overview of task 3 of the CheckThat!lab from the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2023, which focuses on predicting the political leaning of English-language news articles and news media outlets. We describe the data collection, the task setup, the evaluation outcomes, and the approaches used by the participating teams. A total of six teams submitted runs for the two subtasks. The top-performing system in Subtask 3A achieved a Mean Absolute Error (MAE) of 0.473, while the best system in Subtask 3B yielded a MAE of 0.549. We make all datasets and evaluation scripts available to the public, aiming to boost further research on this problem.

First Page

250

Last Page

259

DOI

10.1007/978-3-031-42448-9_20

Publication Date

9-11-2023

Keywords

news articles, news media, Political bias

Comments

IR conditions: non-described

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