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  1. Large Language Models for Combinatorial Optimization: A Systematic Review

    Article • ACM Computing Surveys, March 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kevin Roitero, Prof Luca Di Gaspero, Michael Soprano

  2. Large Language Models as Assessors: On the Impact of Relevance Scales

    Article • January 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Soprano

  3. Analyzing AI Evaluation Benchmarks Through Information Retrieval and Network Science

    Article • January 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Soprano

  4. AIDME: A Scalable, Interpretable Framework for AI-Aided Scoping Reviews

    Article • July 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kevin Roitero, Michael Soprano

  5. PILs of Knowledge: A Synthetic Benchmark for Evaluating Question Answering Systems in Healthcare

    Article • July 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Riccardo Lunardi, Kevin Roitero, Michael Soprano

  6. The Magnitude of Truth: On Using Magnitude Estimation for Truthfulness Assessment

    Article • July 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kevin Roitero, Michael Soprano

  7. Efficiency and Effectiveness of LLM-Based Summarization of Evidence in Crowdsourced Fact-Checking

    Article • July 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kevin Roitero, Michael Soprano

  8. Agent-Based Healthcare Chatbots for Regional System Services: A Case Study

    Article • May 2025, IOS Press

    Michael Soprano

  9. Search Trajectory Networks Applied to a Real-world Parallel Batch Scheduling Problem

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Soprano

  10. Report on the 14th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2024)

    Article • ACM SIGIR Forum, December 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kevin Roitero, Michael Soprano

  11. Hands-On PhD Course on Responsible AI from the Lens of an Information Access Researcher

    Article • ACM SIGIR Forum, December 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Damiano Spina, Michael Soprano

  12. Crowdsourced Fact-checking: Does It Actually Work?

    Article • Information Processing & Management, September 2024, Elsevier

    Michael Soprano

  13. Understanding the Barriers to Running Longitudinal Studies on Crowdsourcing Platforms

    Article • ACM Transactions on Social Computing, July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Michael Soprano, Kevin Roitero, Gianluca Demartini

  14. Cognitive Biases in Fact-Checking and Their Countermeasures: A Review

    Article • Information Processing & Management, May 2024, Elsevier

    Michael Soprano

  15. Crowdsourcing Statement Classification to Enhance Information Quality Prediction

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Soprano

  16. How Many Crowd Workers Do I Need? On Statistical Power When Crowdsourcing Relevance Judgments

    Article • ACM Transactions on Information Systems, May 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kevin Roitero, Gianluca Demartini, Michael Soprano

  17. Transparent assessment of information quality of online reviews using formal argumentation theory

    Article • Information Systems, December 2022, Elsevier

    Michael Soprano

  18. Using Computers to Fact-Check Text and Justify the Decision

    Article • Journal of Data and Information Quality, July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Gianluca Demartini, Erik Brand, Michael Soprano

  19. The Effects of Crowd Worker Biases in Fact-Checking Tasks

    Article • June 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Tim Draws, Michael Soprano

  20. Crowd_Frame: A Simple and Complete Framework to Deploy Complex Crowdsourcing Tasks Off-the-Shelf

    Article • February 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kevin Roitero, Michael Soprano

  21. The many dimensions of truthfulness: Crowdsourcing misinformation assessments on a multidimensional scale

    Article • Information Processing & Management, November 2021, Elsevier

    Michael Soprano

  22. Can the crowd judge truthfulness? A longitudinal study on recent misinformation about COVID-19

    Article • Personal Technologies, September 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Soprano

  23. Assessing the Quality of Online Reviews Using Formal Argumentation Theory

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Soprano

  24. The COVID-19 Infodemic

    Article • October 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Gianluca Demartini, Michael Soprano, Damiano Spina

  25. Can The Crowd Identify Misinformation Objectively?

    Article • July 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Michael Soprano, Gianluca Demartini, Damiano Spina

  26. Crowdsourcing Peer Review: As We May Do

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Soprano

  27. Reproduce and Improve

    Article • Journal of Data and Information Quality, October 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Michael Soprano

  28. Effectiveness Evaluation with a Subset of Topics

    Article • June 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Michael Soprano