Social media facilitates discussions on critical issues such as climate change, but it also contributes to the rapid dissemination of misinformation, which complicates efforts to maintain an informed public and create evidence-based policies. In this shared task, we emphasise the need to link public discourse to peer-reviewed scholarly articles by gathering English claims from social media about climate change as well as a corpus of about 400K abstracts of publications from the climate sciences domains. Participants will be asked to retrieve relevant abstracts for each claim (subtask I) and classify the relation between the claim and abstract as ‘supports’, ‘refutes’, or ‘not enough information’ (subtask II).
The shared task is now live on codabench: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/6639/.
Further updates about the shared task, including training and testing data, will be posted on the codabench competition page.
The training data is available at: https://huggingface.co/datasets/rabuahmad/climatecheck
The publications corpus is available at: https://huggingface.co/datasets/rabuahmad/climatecheck_publications_corpus
Aida Usmanova (Leuphana University Lüneburg)