In the age of fake news and of filter bubbles, assessing the quality of information is a compelling issue: it is important for users to understand the quality of the information they consume online. We report on our experiment aimed at understanding if workers from the crowd can be a suitable alternative to experts for information quality assessment. Results show that the data collected by crowdsourcing seem reliable. The agreement with the experts is not full, but in a task that is so complex and related to the assessor’s background, this is expected and, to some extent, positive
© 2019 National Academy of Sciences. All Rights Reserved. Reducing the spread of misinformation, esp...
Crowdsourcing has become an alternative approach to collect relevance judgments at scale thanks to t...
Crowd work provides solutions to complex problems effectively, efficiently, and at low cost. Previou...
In the age of fake news and of filter bubbles, assessing the quality of information is a compelling ...
Truthfulness judgments are a fundamental step in the process of fighting misinformation, as they are...
Recently, the misinformation problem has been addressed with a crowdsourcing-based approach: to asse...
As crowdsourced user-generated content becomes an important source of data for organizations, a pres...
Recent work has demonstrated the viability of using crowdsourcing as a tool for evaluating the truth...
Information literacy encompasses a range of information evaluation skills for the purpose of making ...
We carried out crowdsourced video quality as- sessments using paired comparisons and...
The Web is the central medium for discovering knowledge via various sources such as blogs, social me...
Recently, crowdsourcing has been proposed as a tool for fighting misinformation online. Will interne...
Due to the increasing amount of information shared online every day, the need for sound and reliable...
Crowdsourcing is an emerging research area that has experienced rapid growth in the past few years. ...
The performance of information retrieval (IR) systems is commonly evaluated using a test set with kn...
© 2019 National Academy of Sciences. All Rights Reserved. Reducing the spread of misinformation, esp...
Crowdsourcing has become an alternative approach to collect relevance judgments at scale thanks to t...
Crowd work provides solutions to complex problems effectively, efficiently, and at low cost. Previou...
In the age of fake news and of filter bubbles, assessing the quality of information is a compelling ...
Truthfulness judgments are a fundamental step in the process of fighting misinformation, as they are...
Recently, the misinformation problem has been addressed with a crowdsourcing-based approach: to asse...
As crowdsourced user-generated content becomes an important source of data for organizations, a pres...
Recent work has demonstrated the viability of using crowdsourcing as a tool for evaluating the truth...
Information literacy encompasses a range of information evaluation skills for the purpose of making ...
We carried out crowdsourced video quality as- sessments using paired comparisons and...
The Web is the central medium for discovering knowledge via various sources such as blogs, social me...
Recently, crowdsourcing has been proposed as a tool for fighting misinformation online. Will interne...
Due to the increasing amount of information shared online every day, the need for sound and reliable...
Crowdsourcing is an emerging research area that has experienced rapid growth in the past few years. ...
The performance of information retrieval (IR) systems is commonly evaluated using a test set with kn...
© 2019 National Academy of Sciences. All Rights Reserved. Reducing the spread of misinformation, esp...
Crowdsourcing has become an alternative approach to collect relevance judgments at scale thanks to t...
Crowd work provides solutions to complex problems effectively, efficiently, and at low cost. Previou...