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20172026
most citedA Stylometric Inquiry into Hyperpartisan and Fake News

61 citations · 169 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.IR2026

Detecting RAG Advertisements Across Advertising Styles

Sebastian Heineking, Wilhelm Pertsch, Ines Zelch +4

Large language models (LLMs) enable a new form of advertising for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems in which organic responses are blended with contextually relevant ads…

cs.CL2026

Overview of PAN 2026: Voight-Kampff Generative AI Detection, Text Watermarking, Multi-Author Writing Style Analysis, Generative Plagiarism Detection, and Reasoning Trajectory Detection

Janek Bevendorff, Maik Fröbe, André Greiner-Petter +9

The goal of the PAN workshop is to advance computational stylometry and text forensics via objective and reproducible evaluation. In 2026, we run the following five tasks: (1) Voig…

cs.IR2024★ 10 cited

Detecting Generated Native Ads in Conversational Search

Sebastian Schmidt, Ines Zelch, Janek Bevendorff +3

Conversational search engines such as YouChat and Microsoft Copilot use large language models (LLMs) to generate responses to queries. It is only a small step to also let the same…

cs.IR2023★ 44 cited

Evaluating Generative Ad Hoc Information Retrieval

Lukas Gienapp, Harrisen Scells, Niklas Deckers +9

Recent advances in large language models have enabled the development of viable generative retrieval systems. Instead of a traditional document ranking, generative retrieval system…

cs.IR2023★ 54 cited

The Information Retrieval Experiment Platform

Maik Fröbe, Jan Heinrich Reimer, Sean MacAvaney +6

We integrate ir_datasets, ir_measures, and PyTerrier with TIRA in the Information Retrieval Experiment Platform (TIREx) to promote more standardized, reproducible, scalable, and ev…

cs.CL2022

SMAuC -- The Scientific Multi-Authorship Corpus

Janek Bevendorff, Philipp Sauer, Lukas Gienapp +4

The rapidly growing volume of scientific publications offers an interesting challenge for research on methods for analyzing the authorship of documents with one or more authors. Ho…

cs.IR2021

FastWARC: Optimizing Large-Scale Web Archive Analytics

Janek Bevendorff, Martin Potthast, Benno Stein

Web search and other large-scale web data analytics rely on processing archives of web pages stored in a standardized and efficient format. Since its introduction in 2008, the IIPC…

cs.IR2021

The Impact of Main Content Extraction on Near-Duplicate Detection

Maik Fröbe, Matthias Hagen, Janek Bevendorff +6

Commercial web search engines employ near-duplicate detection to ensure that users see each relevant result only once, albeit the underlying web crawls typically include (near-)dup…

cs.DL2021

Web Archive Analytics

Michael Völske, Janek Bevendorff, Johannes Kiesel +4

Web archive analytics is the exploitation of publicly accessible web pages and their evolution for research purposes -- to the extent organizationally possible for researchers. In…

cs.CL2017★ 61 cited

A Stylometric Inquiry into Hyperpartisan and Fake News

Martin Potthast, Johannes Kiesel, Kevin Reinartz +2

This paper reports on a writing style analysis of hyperpartisan (i.e., extremely one-sided) news in connection to fake news. It presents a large corpus of 1,627 articles that were…