Recent work has demonstrated the viability of using crowdsourcing as a tool for evaluating the truthfulness of public statements. Under certain conditions such as: (1) having a balanced set of workers with different backgrounds and cognitive …
Recently, the misinformation problem has been addressed with a crowdsourcing-based approach: to assess the truthfulness of a statement, instead of relying on a few experts, a crowd of non-expert is exploited. We study whether crowdsourcing is an …
Bachelor's Degree in Internet of Things, Big Data & Web at the University of Udine. Academic Year 2020/2021. Lectures: 6. Hours: 12
Conference Talk - The 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2020). October 19-23, 2020. Galway, Ireland. Online. Held remotely due to COVID-19 (pre-recorded contribution).
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 been addressed with a crowdsourcing-based approach to scale up …
Truthfulness judgments are a fundamental step in the process of fighting misinformation, as they are crucial to train and evaluate classifiers that automatically distinguish true and false statements. Usually such judgments are made by experts, like …
Conference Talk - The 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Held remotely due to COVID-19 (pre-recorded contribution).
This paper describes Readersourcing 2.0, an ecosystem providing an implementation of the Readersourcing approach proposed by Mizzaro [10]. Readersourcing is proposed as an alternative to the standard peer review activity that aims to exploit the …
We propose an alternative approach to the standard peer review activity that aims to exploit the otherwise lost opinions of readers of publications which is called Readersourcing, originally proposed by Mizzaro [1]. Such an approach can be formalized …