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Beyond Seeing Is Believing: On Crowdsourced Detection of Audiovisual Deepfakes

Deepfakes are increasingly realistic and easy to produce, raising concerns about the reliability of human judgments in misinformation settings. We study audiovisual deepfake …

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Michael Soprano

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

Traditionally, relevance judgments have relied on human annotators, but recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have prompted growing interest in their use as a proxy for …

riccardo-zamolo

Analyzing AI Evaluation Benchmarks Through Information Retrieval and Network Science

Many analyses have been performed on Information Retrieval (IR) evaluation benchmarks. Benchmarking also plays a central role in evaluating the capabilities of Large Language …

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

Scientific publishing is expanding rapidly across disciplines, making it increasingly difficult for researchers to organize, filter, and synthesize the literature. Systematic …

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Michael Soprano

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 …

riccardo-lunardi

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 …

kevin-roitero

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 …

riccardo-lunardi

Search Trajectory Networks Applied to a Real-World Parallel Batch Scheduling Problem

We investigate solution methods for the Oven Scheduling Problem (OSP), a parallel batch scheduling optimization problem in semiconductor manufacturing, using Search Trajectory …

francesca-da-ros

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