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2026 Beyond Seeing Is Believing: On Crowdsourced Detection of Audiovisual Deepfakes Michael Soprano, Andrea Cioci, Stefano Mizzaro
6th Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval (ROMCIR 2026), held in conjunction with ECIR 2026.
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DOI Large Language Models as Assessors: On the Impact of Relevance Scales Riccardo Zamolo, Riccardo Lunardi, Michael Soprano, Gianluca Demartini, Stefano Mizzaro, Kevin Roitero
Advances in Information Retrieval: 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2026). Conference Rank: CORE A; GGS A-.
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DOI Analyzing AI Evaluation Benchmarks Through Information Retrieval and Network Science Gaia Simeoni, Michael Soprano, Riccardo Lunardi, Kevin Roitero, Stefano Mizzaro
Advances in Information Retrieval: 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2026), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 16484, Springer, Cham. Conference Rank: CORE A; GGS A-.
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DOI Large Language Models for Combinatorial Optimization: A Systematic Review Francesca Da Ros, Michael Soprano, Luca Di Gaspero, Kevin Roitero
ACM Computing Surveys. Journal Ranks: Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Q1 (2024), Scimago (SJR) Q1 (2024).
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DOI 2025 AIDME: A Scalable, Interpretable Framework for AI-Aided Scoping Reviews Michael Soprano, Sandip Modha, Kevin Roitero, Eddy Maddalena, Marco Viviani, Gabriella Pasi, Stefano Mizzaro
Proceedings of the 2025 International ACM SIGIR Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval (ICTIR)
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DOI The Magnitude of Truth: On Using Magnitude Estimation for Truthfulness Assessment Michael Soprano, Denis Eduard Tapu, David La Barbera, Kevin Roitero, Stefano Mizzaro
Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Conference Rank: GGS A++, Core A.
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DOI PILs of Knowledge: A Synthetic Benchmark for Evaluating Question Answering Systems in Healthcare Riccardo Lunardi, Michael Soprano, Paolo Coppola, Vincenzo Della Mea, Stefano Mizzaro, Kevin Roitero
Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Conference Rank: GGS A++, Core A.
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DOI Efficiency and Effectiveness of LLM-Based Summarization of Evidence in Crowdsourced Fact-Checking Kevin Roitero, Dustin Wright, Michael Soprano, Isabelle Augenstein, Stefano Mizzaro
Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Conference Rank: GGS A++, Core A.
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DOI In Crowd Veritas: Leveraging Human Intelligence To Fight Misinformation Michael Soprano
Revised version of the PhD thesis, defended on 22 May 2023; arXiv:2506.09221.
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DOI Agent-Based Healthcare Chatbots for Regional System Services: A Case Study in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region Riccardo Lunardi, Kevin Roitero, Michael Soprano, Paolo Coppola, Vincenzo Della Mea, Stefano Mizzaro
Intelligent Health Systems – From Technology to Data and Knowledge.
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DOI Search Trajectory Networks Applied to a Real-World Parallel Batch Scheduling Problem Francesca Da Ros, Luca Di Gaspero, Marie-Louise Lackner, Nysret Musliu, Michael Soprano
Applications of Evolutionary Computation (EvoApplications 2025). Conference Rank: GGS B.
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DOI Evaluation of Crowdsourced Peer Review using Synthetic Data and Simulations Michael Soprano, Eddy Maddalena, Francesca Da Ros, Maria Elena Zuliani, Stefano Mizzaro
Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Information and Research Science Connecting to Digital and Library Science.
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Cite 2024 Report on the Hands-On PhD Course on Responsible AI from the Lens of an Information Access Researcher Damiano Spina, Kevin Roitero, Stefano Mizzaro, Vincenzo Della Mea, Francesca Da Ros, Michael Soprano, Hafsa Akebli, Alex Falcon, Mehdi Fasihi, Alessio Fiorin, David La Barbera, Daniele Lizzio Bosco, Riccardo Lunardi, Alberto Marturano, Zaka-Ud-Din Muhammad, Francesco Nascimben, Moritz Nottebaum, Massimiliano Pascoli, Mihai Horia Popescu, Laura Rasotto, Mubashara Rehman, Francesco Taverna, Biagio Tomasetig, Alessandro Tremamunno
SIGIR Forum
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DOI Report on the 14th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2024) Eddy Maddalena, Stefano Mizzaro, Kevin Roitero, Marco Viviani, David La Barbera, Sandip Modha, Gabriella Pasi, Francesca Da Ros, Michael Soprano
SIGIR Forum
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DOI Enhancing Fact-Checking: From Crowdsourced Validation to Integration with Large Language Models Kevin Roitero, Michael Soprano, David La Barbera, Eddy Maddalena, Stefano Mizzaro
Proceedings of the 14th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop.
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Cite Crowdsourcing Statement Classification to Enhance Information Quality Prediction Jaspreet Singh, Michael Soprano, Kevin Roitero, Davide Ceolin
Proceedings of the 6th Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media (MISDOOM 2024). Münster, Germany.
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DOI Longitudinal Loyalty: Understanding The Barriers To Running Longitudinal Studies On Crowdsourcing Platforms Michael Soprano, Kevin Roitero, Ujwal Gadiraju, Eddy Maddalena, Gianluca Demartini
ACM Transactions on Social Computing. Journal Rank: Scimago (SJR) Q2 (2023).
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DOI Crowdsourced Fact-checking: Does It Actually Work? David La Barbera, Eddy Maddalena, Michael Soprano, Kevin Roitero, Gianluca Demartini, Davide Ceolin, Damiano Spina, Stefano Mizzaro
Information Processing & Management. Journal Ranks: Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Q1 (2023), Scimago (SJR) Q1 (2023).
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DOI Cognitive Biases in Fact-Checking and Their Countermeasures: A Review Michael Soprano, Kevin Roitero, David La Barbera, Davide Ceolin, Damiano Spina, Gianluca Demartini, Stefano Mizzaro
Information Processing & Management. Journal Ranks: Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Q1 (2022), Scimago (SJR) Q1 (2022).
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DOI 2023 Towards a Conversational-Based Agent for Health Services Michael Soprano, Kevin Roitero, Vincenzo Della Mea, Stefano Mizzaro
Proceedings of the Italia Intelligenza Artificiale - Thematic Workshops co-located with the 3rd CINI National Lab AIIS Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
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Cite Fact-Checking at Scale with Crowdsourcing: Experiments and Lessons Learned David La Barbera, Michael Soprano, Kevin Roitero, Eddy Maddalena, Stefano Mizzaro
Proceedings of the 13th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop.
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Cite How Many Crowd Workers Do I Need? On Statistical Power When Crowdsourcing Relevance Judgments Kevin Roitero, David La Barbera, Michael Soprano, Gianluca Demartini, Stefano Mizzaro, Tetsuya Sakai
ACM Transactions on Information Systems. Journal Ranks: Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Q1 (2021), Scimago (SJR) Q1 (2021).
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DOI 2022 Transparent assessment of information quality of online reviews using formal argumentation theory Davide Ceolin, Giuseppe Primiero, Michael Soprano, Jan Wielemaker
Information Systems. Journal Ranks: Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Q2 (2021), Scimago (SJR) Q1 (2021).
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DOI A Neural Model to Jointly Predict and Explain Truthfulness of Statements Erik Brand, Kevin Roitero, Michael Soprano, Afshin Rahimi, Gianluca Demartini
Journal of Data and Information Quality, July 2022. Journal Ranks: Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Q3 (2021), Scimago (SJR) Q2 (2021).
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DOI The Effects of Crowd Worker Biases in Fact-Checking Tasks Tim Draws, David La Barbera, Michael Soprano, Kevin Roitero, Davide Ceolin, Alessandro Checco, Stefano Mizzaro
Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency.
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DOI Crowd_Frame: A Simple and Complete Framework to Deploy Complex Crowdsourcing Tasks Off-the-Shelf Michael Soprano, Kevin Roitero, Francesco Bombassei De Bona, Stefano Mizzaro
Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2022). Virtual Event, AZ, USA. Conference Ranks: GGS A+, Core A\.
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DOI 2021 The Many Dimensions of Truthfulness: Crowdsourcing Misinformation Assessments on a Multidimensional Scale Michael Soprano, Kevin Roitero, David La Barbera, Davide Ceolin, Damiano Spina, Stefano Mizzaro, Gianluca Demartini
Information Processing & Management. Journal Ranks: Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Q1 (2021), Scimago (SJR) Q1 (2021).
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DOI E-BART: Jointly Predicting and Explaining Truthfulness Erik Brand, Kevin Roitero, Michael Soprano, Gianluca Demartini
Proceedings of the 2021 Truth and Trust Online Conference
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Cite Can The Crowd Judge Truthfulness? A Longitudinal Study on Recent Misinformation About COVID-19 Kevin Roitero, Michael Soprano, Beatrice Portelli, Massimiliano De Luise, Damiano Spina, Vincenzo Della Mea, Giuseppe Serra, Stefano Mizzaro, Gianluca Demartini
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. Journal Ranks: Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Q2 (2020), Scimago (SJR) Q1 (2021).
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DOI Assessing the Quality of Online Reviews Using Formal Argumentation Theory Davide Ceolin, Giuseppe Primiero, Jan Wielemaker, Michael Soprano
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Web Engineering. Conference Ranks (2021): GGS B-, Core B.
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DOI 2020 The COVID-19 Infodemic: Can the Crowd Judge Recent Misinformation Objectively? Kevin Roitero, Michael Soprano, Beatrice Portelli, Damiano Spina, Vincenzo Della Mea, Giuseppe Serra, Stefano Mizzaro, Gianluca Demartini
Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. Conference Ranks: GGS A+, Core A.
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DOI Can The Crowd Identify Misinformation Objectively? The Effects of Judgment Scale and Assessor's Background Kevin Roitero, Michael Soprano, Shaoyang Fan, Damiano Spina, Stefano Mizzaro, Gianluca Demartini
Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Conference Rank: GGS A++, Core A.
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