Talks

2026

Crowdsourced Fact-Checking for Misinformation: A Journey Through Nine Years of Research (2018–2026)

Workshop Talk - Workshop “AI and Disinformation”, held as part of the 6th National CINI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Ital-IA 2026). June 18, 2026, Rome, Italy.

Jun 18, 2026 17:20 — 17:30 Rome, Italy.

Michael Soprano, Kevin Roitero, Eddy Maddalena, Stefano Mizzaro

Crowdsourced Fact-Checking for Misinformation: A Journey Through Nine Years of Research (2018–2026)

Crowdsourced Keypoint Matching for Region of Interest Identification in Cross-Stain Whole Slide Image Registration

Poster - 22nd European Congress on Digital Pathology (ECDP 2026). June 18, 2026, Graz, Austria.

Jun 18, 2026 09:00 — 09:00 Graz, Austria.

Alessio Fiorin, Eddy Maddalena, Michael Soprano, Laia Adalid-Llansa, Vincenzo Della Mea, Carlos López-Pablo

Crowdsourced Keypoint Matching for Region of Interest Identification in Cross-Stain Whole Slide Image Registration

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 - 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 - 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 - The 15th International Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories 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

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, 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 (IRCDL 2025). February 20, 2025, 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). September 17, 2024, Pisa, Italy.

Sep 17, 2024 11:30 — 12:30 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 - CARE: Conversational Agents and Responsible Ethics in Healthcare Workshop, held as part of the European Federation of Medical Informatics Special Topic Conference 2023 (EFMI STC 2023). October 26, 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 - 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.

May 29, 2023 00:00 — 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 (WSDM 2022). February 23, 2022, Phoenix, U.S.A. (remote). Held remotely as a pre-recorded contribution due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

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

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 19, 2020, Galway, Ireland (remote). Held remotely as a pre-recorded contribution due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Oct 19, 2020 00:00 — 00:00 Galway, Ireland (remote).

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 (SIGIR 2020). July 25, 2020, Xi’an, China (remote). Held remotely as a pre-recorded contribution due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jul 25, 2020 00:00 — 00:00 Xi'an, China (remote).

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 16, 2019, Padua, Italy.

Sep 16, 2019 00:00 — 00:00 Padua, Italy.

Michael Soprano, Kevin Roitero, Stefano Mizzaro

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