Crowdsourced Fact-checking: Does It Actually Work?
There is an important ongoing effort aimed to tackle misinformation and to perform reliable fact-checking by employing human assessors at scale, with a crowdsourcing-based …
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Cognitive Biases in Fact-Checking and Their Countermeasures: A Review
The increase of the amount of misinformation spread every day online is a huge threat to the society. Organizations and researchers are working to contrast this misinformation …
Towards a Conversational-Based Agent for Healthcare
Workshop Talk - CARE: Conversational Agents and Responsible Ethics in Healthcare Workshop, held as part of the European Federation of Medical Informatics Special Topic Conference …
Towards a Conversational-Based Agent for Health Services
Conversational agents provide new modalities to access and interact with services and applications. Recently, they saw a backfire in their popularity, due to the recent …
Fact-Checking at Scale with Crowdsourcing Experiments and Lessons Learned
In this paper, we present our journey in exploring the use of crowdsourcing for fact-checking. We discuss our early experiments aimed towards the identification of the best …
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Towards a Conversational-Based Agent for Health Services
Workshop Talk - Workshop “AI for Public Administration”, held as part of the 3rd National CINI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Ital-IA 2023). May 29, 2023, Pisa, Italy.
How Many Crowd Workers Do I Need? On Statistical Power When Crowdsourcing Relevance Judgments
To scale the size of Information Retrieval collections, crowdsourcing has become a common way to collect relevance judgments at scale. Crowdsourcing experiments usually employ …
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A Neural Model to Jointly Predict and Explain Truthfulness of Statements
Automated fact-checking (AFC) systems exist to combat disinformation, however their complexity usually makes them opaque to the end user, making it difficult to foster trust in the …
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The Effects of Crowd Worker Biases in Fact-Checking Tasks
Due to the increasing amount of information shared online every day, the need for sound and reliable ways of distinguishing between trustworthy and non-trustworthy information is …
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Crowd_Frame: A Simple and Complete Framework to Deploy Complex Crowdsourcing Tasks Off-the-Shelf
Conference Talk - The 15th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2022). February 23, 2022, Phoenix, U.S.A. (remote). Held remotely as a pre-recorded …