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.
Evaluating the truthfulness of online content is critical for combating misinformation. This study examines the efficiency and effectiveness of crowdsourced truthfulness assessments through a comparative analysis of two approaches: one involving …
There is an important ongoing effort aimed to tackle misinformation and to perform reliable fact-checking by employing human assessors at scale, with a crowdsourcing-based approach. Previous studies on the feasibility of employing crowdsourcing for …
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 possible setting for misinformation assessment using crowdsourcing. Our …
To scale the size of Information Retrieval collections, crowdsourcing has become a common way to collect relevance judgments at scale. Crowdsourcing experiments usually employ 100-10,000 workers, but such a number is often decided in a heuristic way. …
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 as present as ever. One technique for performing fact-checking at scale …
Conference Talk - The 15th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining. February 15th, 2022. Phoenix, U.S.A. Held remotely as a pre-recorded contribution due to the COVID-19 pandemic.