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most citedAuditing YouTube's Recommendation Algorithm for Misinformation Filter Bubbles

57 citations · 171 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CL2024

Use Random Selection for Now: Investigation of Few-Shot Selection Strategies in LLM-based Text Augmentation for Classification

Jan Cegin, Branislav Pecher, Jakub Simko +3

The generative large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for data augmentation tasks, where text samples are paraphrased (or generated anew) and then used for classifier f…

cs.CL2024

LLMs vs Established Text Augmentation Techniques for Classification: When do the Benefits Outweight the Costs?

Jan Cegin, Jakub Simko, Peter Brusilovsky

The generative large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used for data augmentation tasks, where text samples are LLM-paraphrased and then used for classifier fine-tuning…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Fighting Randomness with Randomness: Mitigating Optimisation Instability of Fine-Tuning using Delayed Ensemble and Noisy Interpolation

Branislav Pecher, Jan Cegin, Robert Belanec +3

While fine-tuning of pre-trained language models generally helps to overcome the lack of labelled training samples, it also displays model performance instability. This instability…

cs.CL2024★ 6 cited

Authorship Obfuscation in Multilingual Machine-Generated Text Detection

Dominik Macko, Robert Moro, Adaku Uchendu +7

High-quality text generation capability of recent Large Language Models (LLMs) causes concerns about their misuse (e.g., in massive generation/spread of disinformation). Machine-ge…

cs.CL2024★ 6 cited

Effects of diversity incentives on sample diversity and downstream model performance in LLM-based text augmentation

Jan Cegin, Branislav Pecher, Jakub Simko +3

The latest generative large language models (LLMs) have found their application in data augmentation tasks, where small numbers of text samples are LLM-paraphrased and then used to…

cs.CL2023

Multilingual and Multi-topical Benchmark of Fine-tuned Language models and Large Language Models for Check-Worthy Claim Detection

Martin Hyben, Sebastian Kula, Ivan Srba +2

This study compares the performance of (1) fine-tuned language models and (2) large language models on the task of check-worthy claim detection. For the purpose of the comparison w…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

ChatGPT to Replace Crowdsourcing of Paraphrases for Intent Classification: Higher Diversity and Comparable Model Robustness

Jan Cegin, Jakub Simko, Peter Brusilovsky

The emergence of generative large language models (LLMs) raises the question: what will be its impact on crowdsourcing? Traditionally, crowdsourcing has been used for acquiring sol…

cs.CL2023★ 11 cited

Multilingual Previously Fact-Checked Claim Retrieval

Matúš Pikuliak, Ivan Srba, Robert Moro +7

Fact-checkers are often hampered by the sheer amount of online content that needs to be fact-checked. NLP can help them by retrieving already existing fact-checks relevant to the c…

cs.CY2022★ 2 cited

Autonomation, Not Automation: Activities and Needs of European Fact-checkers as a Basis for Designing Human-Centered AI Systems

Andrea Hrckova, Robert Moro, Ivan Srba +2

To mitigate the negative effects of false information more effectively, the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems to assist fact-checkers is needed. Nevertheless, the…

cs.IR2022★ 57 cited

Auditing YouTube's Recommendation Algorithm for Misinformation Filter Bubbles

Ivan Srba, Robert Moro, Matus Tomlein +8

In this paper, we present results of an auditing study performed over YouTube aimed at investigating how fast a user can get into a misinformation filter bubble, but also what it t…

cs.CL2022★ 14 cited

Monant Medical Misinformation Dataset: Mapping Articles to Fact-Checked Claims

Ivan Srba, Branislav Pecher, Matus Tomlein +4

False information has a significant negative influence on individuals as well as on the whole society. Especially in the current COVID-19 era, we witness an unprecedented growth of…

cs.IR2022★ 57 cited

An Audit of Misinformation Filter Bubbles on YouTube: Bubble Bursting and Recent Behavior Changes

Matus Tomlein, Branislav Pecher, Jakub Simko +7

The negative effects of misinformation filter bubbles in adaptive systems have been known to researchers for some time. Several studies investigated, most prominently on YouTube, h…

cs.HC2021★ 15 cited

A Study of Fake News Reading and Annotating in Social Media Context

Jakub Simko, Patrik Racsko, Matus Tomlein +3

The online spreading of fake news is a major issue threatening entire societies. Much of this spreading is enabled by new media formats, namely social networks and online media sit…