ClaimPT: A Portuguese Dataset of Annotated Claims in News Articles

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19490v1
• Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:22:00 GMT
• Title: ClaimPT: A Portuguese Dataset of Annotated Claims in News Articles
• Abstract summary: ClaimPT is a dataset of European Portuguese news articles annotated for factual claims.<n>Two trained annotators labeled each article, with a curator validating all annotations according to a newly proposed scheme.<n>We provide baseline models for claim detection, establishing initial benchmarks and enabling future NLP and IR applications.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Fact-checking remains a demanding and time-consuming task, still largely dependent on manual verification and unable to match the rapid spread of misinformation online. This is particularly important because debunking false information typically takes longer to reach consumers than the misinformation itself; accelerating corrections through automation can therefore help counter it more effectively. Although many organizations perform manual fact-checking, this approach is difficult to scale given the growing volume of digital content. These limitations have motivated interest in automating fact-checking, where identifying claims is a crucial first step. However, progress has been uneven across languages, with English dominating due to abundant annotated data. Portuguese, like other languages, still lacks accessible, licensed datasets, limiting research, NLP developments and applications. In this paper, we introduce ClaimPT, a dataset of European Portuguese news articles annotated for factual claims, comprising 1,308 articles and 6,875 individual annotations. Unlike most existing resources based on social media or parliamentary transcripts, ClaimPT focuses on journalistic content, collected through a partnership with LUSA, the Portuguese News Agency. To ensure annotation quality, two trained annotators labeled each article, with a curator validating all annotations according to a newly proposed scheme. We also provide baseline models for claim detection, establishing initial benchmarks and enabling future NLP and IR applications. By releasing ClaimPT, we aim to advance research on low-resource fact-checking and enhance understanding of misinformation in news media.

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