The scholarly publishing process relies on peer review to uphold the quality of scientific knowledge. However, challenges such as increasing submission volumes and potential …
Information retrieval effectiveness evaluation is often carried out by means of test collections. Many works investigated possible sources of bias in such an approach. We propose a …
This paper explores the use of crowdsourcing to classify statement types in film reviews to assess their information quality. Employing the Argument Type Identification Procedure …
Conversational agents provide new modalities to access and interact with services and applications. Recently, they saw a backfire in their popularity, due to the recent …
In this paper, we present our journey in exploring the use of crowdsourcing for fact-checking. We discuss our early experiments aimed towards the identification of the best …
Due to the increasing amount of information shared online every day, the need for sound and reliable ways of distinguishing between trustworthy and non-trustworthy information is …
Due to their relatively low cost and ability to scale, crowdsourcing based approaches are widely used to collect a large amount of human annotated data. To this aim, multiple …
Automated fact-checking (AFC) systems exist to combat disinformation, however their complexity makes them opaque to the end user, making it difficult to foster trust. In this …
Review scores collect users opinions in a simple and intuitive manner. However, review scores are also easily manipulable, hence they are often accompanied by explanations. A …
Misinformation is an ever increasing problem that is difficult to solve for the research community and has a negative impact on the society at large. Very recently, the problem has …