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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

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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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

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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In Crowd Veritas: Leveraging Human Intelligence To Fight Misinformation

The spread of online misinformation poses serious threats to democratic societies. Traditionally, expert fact-checkers verify the truthfulness of information through investigative …

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Michael Soprano

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

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

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 …

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