Talks

2026

Beyond Seeing Is Believing: On Crowdsourced Detection of Audiovisual Deepfakes

Workshop Talk - The 6th Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval (ROMCIR 2026), held as part of The 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2026). Delft, The Netherlands.

Apr 2, 2026 15:30 — 15:30 Delft, The Netherlands.

Michael Soprano, Andrea Cioci, Stefano Mizzaro

Beyond Seeing Is Believing: On Crowdsourced Detection of Audiovisual Deepfakes

Analyzing AI Evaluation Benchmarks Through Information Retrieval and Network Science

Poster Presentation - The 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2026). Delft, The Netherlands.

Mar 30, 2026 13:31 — 14:31 Delft, The Netherlands.

Gaia Simeoni, Michael Soprano, Riccardo Lunardi, Kevin Roitero, Stefano Mizzaro

Analyzing AI Evaluation Benchmarks Through Information Retrieval and Network Science

Large Language Models as Assessors: On the Impact of Relevance Scales

Poster Presentation - The 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2026). Delft, The Netherlands.

Mar 30, 2026 13:30 — 14:30 Delft, The Netherlands.

Riccardo Zamolo, Riccardo Lunardi, Michael Soprano, Gianluca Demartini, Stefano Mizzaro, Kevin Roitero

Large Language Models as Assessors: On the Impact of Relevance Scales

2025

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

Poster Presentation - The 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Padua, Italy.

Jul 18, 2025 13:30 — 15:30 Padua, Italy.

Michael Soprano, Sandip Modha, Kevin Roitero, Eddy Maddalena, Marco Viviani, Gabriella Pasi, Stefano Mizzaro

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

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

Conference Talk - The 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Padua, Italy.

Jul 16, 2025 14:50 — 14:50 Padua, Italy.

Michael Soprano, Denis Eduard Tapu, David La Barbera, Kevin Roitero, Stefano Mizzaro

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

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

Talk at the 5th National CINI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Ital-IA 2025). June 23 2025, Trieste, Italy.

Jun 23, 2025 00:00 — 00:00 Trieste, Italy.

Michael Soprano, Sandip Modha, Kevin Roitero, Eddy Maddalena, Marco Viviani, Gabriella Pasi, Stefano Mizzaro

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. Udine, Italy.

Feb 20, 2025 14:30 — 14:30 Udine, Italy.

Michael Soprano, Eddy Maddalena, Francesca Da Ros, Maria Elena Zuliani, Stefano Mizzaro

Evaluation of Crowdsourced Peer Review using Synthetic Data and Simulations

2024

Deploying Complex Crowdsourcing Tasks Without Fear: An Introduction to Crowd_Frame

Demo Presentation - The 3rd Italian Conference on Big Data and Data Science (ITADATA 2024). Pisa, Italy.

Sep 17, 2024 11:30 — 09:12 Pisa, Italy.

Michael Soprano, Kevin Roitero, Stefano Mizzaro

Deploying Complex Crowdsourcing Tasks Without Fear: An Introduction to Crowd_Frame

2023

Towards a Conversational-Based Agent for Healthcare

Workshop Talk - European Federation of Medical Informatics Special Topic Conference 2023 (EFMI STC 2023). Turin, Italy.

Oct 26, 2023 08:30 — 09:10 Turin, Italy.

Michael Soprano, Kevin Roitero, Vincenzo Della Mea, Stefano Mizzaro

Towards a Conversational-Based Agent for Healthcare

Towards a Conversational-Based Agent for Health Services

Workshop Talk - Terzo Convegno Nazionale CINI sull’Intelligenza Artificiale (Ital-IA 2023). May 29th, 2023. Pisa, Italy.

May 29, 2023 00:00 — May 31, 2023 00:00 Pisa, Italy.

Michael Soprano, Kevin Roitero, Vincenzo Della Mea, Stefano Mizzaro

Towards a Conversational-Based Agent for Health Services

2022

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. February 15th, 2022. Phoenix, U.S.A. Held remotely as a pre-recorded contribution due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Feb 23, 2022 00:00 — 00:00 Phoenix, U.S.A.

Michael Soprano, Kevin Roitero, Francesco Bombassei De Bona, Stefano Mizaro

Crowd_Frame: A Simple and Complete Framework to Deploy Complex Crowdsourcing Tasks Off-the-Shelf

2020

The COVID-19 Infodemic: Can The Crowd Judge Recent Misinformation Objectively?

Conference Talk - The 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2020). October 19th, 2020. Galway, Ireland. Held remotely as a pre-recorded contribution due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Oct 19, 2020 00:00 — Oct 23, 2020 00:00 Galway, Ireland.

Kevin Roitero, Michael Soprano, Beatrice Portelli, Damiano Spina, Vincenzo Della Mea, Giuseppe Serra, Stefano Mizzaro, Gianluca Demartini

The COVID-19 Infodemic: Can The Crowd Judge Recent Misinformation Objectively?

Can The Crowd Identify Misinformation Objectively? The Effects of Judgment Scale and Assessor’s Background.

Conference Talk - The 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. July 25th, 2020. Xi’an, China. Held remotely as a pre-recorded contribution due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jul 25, 2020 00:00 — Jul 30, 2020 00:00 Phoenix, U.S.A.

Kevin Roitero, Michael Soprano, Shaoyang Fan, Damiano Spina, Stefano Mizzaro, Gianluca Demartini

Can The Crowd Identify Misinformation Objectively? The Effects of Judgment Scale and Assessor’s Background.

2019

Bias and Fairness in Effectiveness Evaluation by Means of Network Analysis and Mixture Model

Workshop Talk - Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2019). September 16th, 2019. Padova, Italy.

Sep 16, 2019 00:00 — Sep 18, 2019 00:00 Padova, Italy.

Michael Soprano, Kevin Roitero, Stefano Mizzaro

Bias and Fairness in Effectiveness Evaluation by Means of Network Analysis and Mixture Model