Stefano Mizzaro

The Magnitude of Truth: On Using Magnitude Estimation for Truthfulness Assessment

Assessing the truthfulness of information is a critical task in fact-checking and is typically performed using binary or coarse ordinal scales (2–6 levels), though fine-grained …

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Michael Soprano

PILs of Knowledge: A Synthetic Benchmark for Evaluating Question Answering Systems in Healthcare

Patient Information Leaflets (PILs) provide essential information about medication usage, side effects, precautions, and interactions, making them a valuable resource for Question …

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Efficiency and Effectiveness of LLM-Based Summarization of Evidence in Crowdsourced Fact-Checking

Evaluating the truthfulness of online content is critical for combating misinformation. This study examines the efficiency and effectiveness of crowdsourced truthfulness …

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AIDME: A Scalable, Interpretable Framework for AI-Aided Scoping Reviews

Workshop Talk - Workshop “AI, Misinformation and Disinformation”, held as part of the 5th National CINI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Ital-IA 2025). June 23, 2025, …

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Michael Soprano

Agent-Based Healthcare Chatbots for Regional System Services: A Case Study in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region

This paper presents an agent-based model for interacting with regional healthcare system services in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia (FVG) region. The model is designed to streamline and …

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Evaluation of Crowdsourced Peer Review using Synthetic Data and Simulations

The scholarly publishing process relies on peer review to uphold the quality of scientific knowledge. However, challenges such as increasing submission volumes and potential …

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Michael Soprano
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Evaluation of Crowdsourced Peer Review using Synthetic Data and Simulations

Conference Talk - 21st Conference on Information and Research Science Connecting to Digital and Library Science (IRCDL 2025). February 20, 2025, Udine, Italy.

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Michael Soprano

Report on the Hands-On PhD Course on Responsible AI from the Lens of an Information Access Researcher

While the concept of responsible AI is becoming more and more popular, practitioners and researchers may often struggle to characterize responsible practices in their own work. …

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Report on the 14th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2024)

IIR 2024, the 14th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop, served as the annual event for the IR and RS communities both in Italy and collaborating with Italian research …

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Enhancing Fact-Checking: From Crowdsourced Validation to Integration with Large Language Models

This extended abstract presents results from two recent studies aimed at enhancing the practical application and effectiveness of fact-checking systems. The first study …

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